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

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 ...

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.