TAKE A WHACK!
Tony’s ‘Sopranos’ finale booth for sale
Onion rings not included. The legendary ice-cream parlor booth where Tony Soprano may or may not have been whacked during the final scene of “The Sopranos” was put up for auction Wednesday night — with bids reaching $32,000.
Holsten’s, in Bloomfield, NJ, is selling the 60-year-old booth as part of a much-needed facelift for the shop, which had been a local mainstay even before the Mafia hit’s 2007 finale was filmed there, owner Chris Carley told The Post on Thursday.
“It’s only the first day, so yeah, we’re kind of surprised ourselves as to where it’s at and where it might go,” he said of the booth. “It still has a couple of days.”
Carley said the piece of TV gangland history has constantly been drawing fans seeking to relive the iconic ending — in which the Soprano family is seen casually dining before the screen cuts to black, leaving viewers forever to wonder what happened to the mob boss.
Whoever wins the auction, which ends on Monday, will take home both seats, the table, the divider wall and the Soprano family plaque, which reads: “This booth reserved for the Soprano family.”
Many fans of the show were sent into a tizzy when news of Holsten’s renovations was shared on social media Wednesday night.
“There’s a certain percentage of people who don’t want us to change anything,” Carley said of the parlor, going strong since 1939.
“Believe me, we appreciate everything ‘The Sopranos’ has done for us,” Carley said. “I mean, we had a very good business before, but it just made it better. We survived a pandemic, and you know, people continue to support us, buying our ice cream and eating our cheeseburgers.”