Patsy Grimaldi – who helped launch a coal-fire, brick-oven pizza craze by flipping thin-crust pies at his DUMBO joint overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge – has died of natural causes. He was 93.

The flavor is better in here than in a conventional oven. It’s a lot different." Sit in the dining room in full view of the brick, coal-fired oven and order the basil-topped classic plain pie or ...