Career
Has been used as a backdrop by fashion photographers, as a location to shoot scenes for the 1989 film Last Exit to Brooklyn, and as a place where the model Twiggy posed. However, in 1951 the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway came along and cut the grocery store off, so Emma and Buddy closed lieutenant As of 2006 there was still a rift between Pilar and Emma due to the grocery store closing.
Montero"s is still open as of 2014.
Pilar"s obituary was included in The Socialite who Killed a Nazi with Her Bare Hands: And 144 Other Fascinating People who Died this Year, a collection of New York Times obituaries published in 2012.