This former Mainer gives away free pizzas – by lowering them from his apartment window Ben Berman, of Cape Elizabeth, is now an MBA student at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and is making people smile with an unusual pizza delivery system. By Cathy FreeWashington Post Share It was the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic when people in Philadelphia’s Center City first noticed that pizzas were dropping from Ben Berman’s second-story apartment window. Berman was lowering 16 handmade pies on a long string, one by one, to his friends waiting below on the street after he canceled a group pizza party because of the coronavirus pandemic.