Mama Mia! NYC rules crack down on coal, wood-fired pizzerias — Lombardi’s Paulie Gee’s, Grimaldi’s, John of Bleecker and more.
Mama Mia! NYC rules crack down on coal, wood-fired pizzerias — Lombardi’s Paulie Gee’s, Grimaldi’s, John of Bleecker and more.
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19 Comments
pumper911
Seeing conflicting things in the article about this – do you think it will actually compromise the taste at all? These are some top spots in the city
christag
This article had me rolling the entire time. I was reading paulie g’s quotes in his voice and lost it when he contradicted the “anonymous restauranteur” Also to end the article on the quote from the 8yo was brilliant
EDIT; originally said anonymous pizza place owner was the guy from Grimaldis but hey who knows, they’re anonymous
Sexy_Cat_Meow
Dave Portnoy intensifies.
donut_butt
I wish the city would kick in to help with demands like this, especially when the number of affected restaurants is so small but those restaurants have an outsized impact on NYC culture.
The aid doesn’t have to be monetary either: a lot of the expense with this is dealing with the city permitting institutions. Or trying to find a non-crooked architect or engineer.
StrengthDouble
More stupid rules from the city.
Rubberbabybuggybum
Lol Grimaldis is literally next to the BQE.
I’m pretty sure that fucking parking lot is causing more environmental damage than one pizza oven.
Less-Cap6996
Terrible. Just terrible.
gambalore
>“I’m all for responsible environmental practice but tell Al Gore to take one less private jet or something. Give me a break!” said Brooklyn Heights resident Saavi Sharma, 32, a financier who brought her parents and cousin visiting from India for their first slice at Grimaldi’s, referring to the former vice president and climate change activist.
>“I’ve been bragging about this pizza to my family for like five years,” Sharma said Sunday. Don’t mess with this!”
If you’ve been bragging about Grimaldi’s pizza for the last five years, your opinion on the taste of pizza carries no weight. Not to mention the hacky Al Gore joke.
O2C
I’m guessing I’ll get downvotes but I think it’s much ado about nothing. Progress happens. They’re not banning these ovens, but they’re telling them they need to mitigate the smoke generated by burning coal.
They need to add air scrubbers to their chimneys and it’s going to cost them what I’m guessing is less than a month’s rent. (My point of reference is that a ~15 years ago Grimaldi’s was evicted for ~$60k in back rent and fees, and they were paying ~$12k a month in 2010 according to court documents.)
Does it stink to have their costs increase? Sure, but the article talks about how one restaurant did it. It stopped the upstairs neighbor from complaining about the smoke and didn’t affect the taste of the pizza.
macNchz
I worked in an office next door to pizza place with a wood oven. It sucked!
Every day at 3pm when they’d start heating the oven for dinner there’d be a thick haze of smoke hanging behind the restaurant for like an hour, I assume until the oven heated up enough to start burning efficiently. Air currents would pull the smoke down from their chimney pipe into the space between the buildings, where’d it be trapped. Even with the windows closed the smell of it seeped into the office, and if anyone had a window cracked when it started the whole place would reek for the rest of the day.
These ovens are filthy and I think it’s reasonable to expect them to be good neighbors.
salpn
Poor Motorino’s, L’Industrie, and Best Pizzarias in Williamsburg
HaddockBranzini-II
Nothing a little envelope of money passed to the right hands won’t solve.
akmalhot
Yup 100 coal.ovens driving all the environmental issues
AccomplishedRoof5983
Why only 75%
No_Command_3225
Let’s get Dave Portnoy on this. Defend the establishments that cannot use scrubbers and all of those installed after 1968 should have to install them. Also a ton of businesses still use diesel heat and transportation, I doubt that is doing any better and should be under review as much as these iconic institutions.
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rHereLetsGo
I’d absolutely give up 1 year of my life for all of the pizzas past, present and future I will consume in this lifetime to have there be no change
It’s pizza, people. Next to oxygen and water, what else do we need to survive?
Deluxe78
Only microwave pizza using a solar or wind is allowed
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Seeing conflicting things in the article about this – do you think it will actually compromise the taste at all? These are some top spots in the city
This article had me rolling the entire time. I was reading paulie g’s quotes in his voice and lost it when he contradicted the “anonymous restauranteur” Also to end the article on the quote from the 8yo was brilliant
EDIT; originally said anonymous pizza place owner was the guy from Grimaldis but hey who knows, they’re anonymous
Dave Portnoy intensifies.
I wish the city would kick in to help with demands like this, especially when the number of affected restaurants is so small but those restaurants have an outsized impact on NYC culture.
The aid doesn’t have to be monetary either: a lot of the expense with this is dealing with the city permitting institutions. Or trying to find a non-crooked architect or engineer.
More stupid rules from the city.
Lol Grimaldis is literally next to the BQE.
I’m pretty sure that fucking parking lot is causing more environmental damage than one pizza oven.
Terrible. Just terrible.
>“I’m all for responsible environmental practice but tell Al Gore to take one less private jet or something. Give me a break!” said Brooklyn Heights resident Saavi Sharma, 32, a financier who brought her parents and cousin visiting from India for their first slice at Grimaldi’s, referring to the former vice president and climate change activist.
>“I’ve been bragging about this pizza to my family for like five years,” Sharma said Sunday. Don’t mess with this!”
If you’ve been bragging about Grimaldi’s pizza for the last five years, your opinion on the taste of pizza carries no weight. Not to mention the hacky Al Gore joke.
I’m guessing I’ll get downvotes but I think it’s much ado about nothing. Progress happens. They’re not banning these ovens, but they’re telling them they need to mitigate the smoke generated by burning coal.
They need to add air scrubbers to their chimneys and it’s going to cost them what I’m guessing is less than a month’s rent. (My point of reference is that a ~15 years ago Grimaldi’s was evicted for ~$60k in back rent and fees, and they were paying ~$12k a month in 2010 according to court documents.)
Does it stink to have their costs increase? Sure, but the article talks about how one restaurant did it. It stopped the upstairs neighbor from complaining about the smoke and didn’t affect the taste of the pizza.
I worked in an office next door to pizza place with a wood oven. It sucked!
Every day at 3pm when they’d start heating the oven for dinner there’d be a thick haze of smoke hanging behind the restaurant for like an hour, I assume until the oven heated up enough to start burning efficiently. Air currents would pull the smoke down from their chimney pipe into the space between the buildings, where’d it be trapped. Even with the windows closed the smell of it seeped into the office, and if anyone had a window cracked when it started the whole place would reek for the rest of the day.
These ovens are filthy and I think it’s reasonable to expect them to be good neighbors.
Poor Motorino’s, L’Industrie, and Best Pizzarias in Williamsburg
Nothing a little envelope of money passed to the right hands won’t solve.
Yup 100 coal.ovens driving all the environmental issues
Why only 75%
Let’s get Dave Portnoy on this. Defend the establishments that cannot use scrubbers and all of those installed after 1968 should have to install them. Also a ton of businesses still use diesel heat and transportation, I doubt that is doing any better and should be under review as much as these iconic institutions.
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I’d absolutely give up 1 year of my life for all of the pizzas past, present and future I will consume in this lifetime to have there be no change
It’s pizza, people. Next to oxygen and water, what else do we need to survive?
Only microwave pizza using a solar or wind is allowed
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