<P> Mookie ( Spike Lee ) is a 25 - year - old delivery man living in Bedford - Stuyvesant , Brooklyn with his sister , Jade ( Joie Lee ) . He and his girlfriend , Tina ( Rosie Perez ) , have a son . He works at the local pizzeria , but lacks ambition . Sal ( Danny Aiello ) , the pizzeria 's Italian - American owner , has been in the neighborhood for 25 years . His older son Pino ( John Turturro ) intensely dislikes blacks , and does not get along with Mookie . Because of this , Pino is at odds with both his father , who is likewise bigoted but refuses to leave the increasingly African - American neighborhood , and his younger brother Vito ( Richard Edson ) , who is friendly with Mookie . </P>
<P> Mookie ( Spike Lee ) is a 25 - year - old delivery man living in Bedford - Stuyvesant , Brooklyn with his sister , Jade ( Joie Lee ) . He and his girlfriend , Tina ( Rosie Perez ) , have a son . He works at the local pizzeria , but lacks ambition . Sal ( Danny Aiello ) , the pizzeria 's Italian - American owner , has been in the neighborhood for 25 years . His older son Pino ( John Turturro ) intensely dislikes blacks , and does not get along with Mookie . Because of this , Pino is at odds with both his father , who is likewise bigoted but refuses to leave the increasingly African - American neighborhood , and his younger brother Vito ( Richard Edson ) , who is friendly with Mookie . </P>
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Bedford - Stuyvesant , Brooklyn
Bedford - Stuyvesant , Brooklyn