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  • NYC coal-oven pizza legend Patsy Grimaldi dead at 93: ‘He was a visionary’

    02/16/2025 2:11:27 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 18 replies
    New York Post ^ | Feb. 15, 2025 | Rich Calder
    Patsy Grimaldi, who was credited with launching NYC’s coal-fire, brick-oven pizza craze in the 1990s from his Brooklyn pie shop, died of natural causes Thursday night, according to close friends. He was 93. “He was a visionary who maintained a life-long passion — maybe obsession — for making and sharing great pizza,” his longtime friend and business partner Matt Grogan told The Post. “He will go down in history for his generosity and for simultaneously launching a renaissance of artisan pizza-making in New York City, and for pioneering a path to making Brooklyn cool.” Grimaldi was raised in Bronx, the...