It’s been a busy month for Paul Hansen. While readying the resurrected Burger Haven in Huntington Village , he was also putting the finishing touches on a new pizzeria about two miles south in Huntington Station. It was anyone’s guess which one would open first but Paulie’s Pizzeria, which opened Aug. 15, beat Burger Haven by a few days.

The fates of the two establishments are intertwined: The freestanding building on Pulaski Road was the original Conte’s Burger Haven from 1961 to 2008. Its next owner was Mark Salese, who ran Marco’s pizzeria until earlier this year. Hansen and his partners bought the building two years ago because they liked the location, the layout and the parking. "Our philosophy, " he said, "is to buy the real estate and then figure out what to put there."

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