Say it ain’t dough. After 124 years, Caputo’s Bake Shop, a fixture of Brooklyn neighborhood Carroll Gardens, has baked its last loaf of Italian bread. And owner James Caputo is overwhelmed at the thought of saying goodbye. “I haven’t cried since I was a child, and I thought I never would again,” Caputo, 54, told The Post of the wrenching, sudden decision to close the family business that his Sicilian immigrant great-grandfather originally opened at the dawn of the 20th century.
“I can’t stop getting emotional over this. But at the same time, a burden has been lifted from my shoulders.” A staple of the Brooklyn neighborhood it has called home since horse-drawn carriages rolled on its streets, Caputo’s was a carboholic’s dream.
