“My father was one of the innovators of the modern diner,” Louis Rigos said. It was there that he got the idea to create a diner with food from around the world and to change the traditional boxcar style of diner by adding tables and booths. George Rigos became involved in the diner business after working at a concession stand at the Queens World's Fair in 1964. That's why he kept this place,” he said, referring to the diner. “He couldn't educate us the way he wanted, but he wanted to educate his grandkids. “His priority was his grandkids,” Louis Rigos said. Louis Rigos said his father became a widower in 1973 and that all of the remaining family lives in a five- to 10-mile radius around George Rigos' apartment, where he had lived for eight or nine years. Before leaving, she laid a bouquet of flowers at the outside stairwell and lit a candle.Īn immigrant from Greece, George Rigos had four sons, three daughters. They paused to talk with one of George Rigos' daughters, who declined to speak with reporters. As a team from the police's Emergency Services Unit lifted off nearby sewer grates in a fruitless search for a murder weapon, two detectives working on the case spoke with neighbors. Police Friday were trying to determine how the murderer managed to get into the house. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Jamaica.
There is no possible way you could get through that door.”Ī funeral for Rigos was held Monday at St. “In this house if you sneeze too loud, the next-door neighbor hears it,” she said. and celebrated by putting on some music, which she said she and her husband did not play too loudly. On New Year's Eve, Echevarria arrived home at 6 p.m. “It's left all of us in the house in shock,” she said. You could tell by his demeanor,” said Angela Echevarria, 31, who lives on the first floor of the house and called paramedics when Louis Rigos banged on her door the morning of New Year's Day. Neighbors said the two men had very different schedules, and while none knew much about Spiliopoulos, they all said George Rigos was a friendly man. Louis Rigos, citing the ongoing police investigation, declined to comment on the arrangement between Spiliopoulos and his father, who rented the top floor of a two-story brick house.
It was not known why Rigos, the father of seven, took a roommate or how the two men initially met. Neighbors said they never noticed any problems between George Rigos and his roommate. While his neighbors prepared to ring in the new year, George Rigos had some of his 21 grandchildren over to his apartment near 92nd Avenue and Gettysburg Street, as he often did. “In all the years I knew my father, I never saw him celebrate New Year's Eve,” Louis Rigos said. 31 just like every other Wednesday that marked a typical day off from the Manhattan diner that he owned. He never showed anger nor did he judge people,” he said. “He was kind of like a silent icon for the family,” Louis Rigos said, describing how his father would only speak when he felt he had something meaningful to say, such as encouragement for his many family members. Louis Rigos helped his father run the restaurant. “It was not what you'd expect from an elderly man with a heart condition,” he said. Louis Rigos said that the appearance of his father's bedroom indicated a struggle. He found his father dead in his bedroom, stabbed twice in the chest.
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