Patsy Grimaldi, a NYC pizza legend, dies at 93, leaving a profound impact on the city's coal-fired, brick-oven pizza scene.

Patsy Grimaldi, an iconic figure in NYC’s pizza scene who most recently owned the Dumbo pizzeria Juliana’s, died of natural ...

Patsy Grimaldi – who helped launch a coal-fire, brick-oven pizza craze by flipping thin-crust pies at his DUMBO joint ...

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 ...

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.