Patsy Grimaldi, the charcoal pizzeria in the shadow of Brooklyn Bridge, won the new fans the oldest pizza style in New York city. He was 93 years old.
His nephew Frederick Grimaldi reaffirmed the death, Newyork-Presbyterian Queens Hospital.
Mr. Grimaldi started selling in 1990 with Patsy’s name. In those days, the city’s pizza landscape was regularly disturbed, and there was not many Patsy Grimaldi’s place to name Patsy Grimaldi’s place again. Many years later, he reopened his restaurant with his name that pays homage to his mother. Today, this sign reads Juliana’s pizza.
According to the name, he attracted the long lines of the pizzeris of Grimaldi, on the old Fulton street, roasted homemade peppers, a tender crust with white mozzarella pools in the oven. Coal antracita.
Like the chef who trained, Mr. Grimaldi learned in his teenagers who learned in his teenagers, owned by his uncle Pasquale Lanciera. Lancieri Mr. It was a small fraternity of Naples, the founders of Totonno’s Pizzeria in Brooklyn and Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, New Yorkers in Pizza. At the beginning of the 19th century.
Mr. Grimaldi returned to these origins, after a long journey as a server, he opened a place built in a built coal. At the same time, he took care of his work – fennel to pick up the pig sausage every morning, for example, while other pizzerias was purchased from large distributors. Follow the legions of pizzaiolik’s focus.
“In the city of Anthony Mangieri, Anthony Mangieri was the first artisanal pizza in the city.
“It was really what the old school connection opened, but he was thinking a little further, focused on food,” he added.
Patsy Frederick Grimaldi was born on August 3, 1931, Grimaldi in Bronx Federico and Maria Juliana (Lancieri), Southern Italy immigrants. His father, a teacher of music and the barber died. When Patsy was 12 years old. Patsy worked in his uncle’s pizzer, as a busboy for the first time, and then coal was learned in the oven and eventually dining as a server. It was not only a short leave in the early 1950s, but also to 1974.
Patsy’s pizzeren stayed late in these hours and heard the criminals, cunning chefs and other creatures, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Rodney Danggio, Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra.
The Lord the Sinatra formed the link lasted for decades. Mr. Grimaldi made two sausages of Patsy, when Mr. Sinatra stopped at Waldorf Astoria in his suite. In 1953, they entered Hawaii with each other, where Mr. Sinatra was filming “From Eternate”.
“What do you do here?” The singer asked the server. The Mr. Grimaldi sent the military to play the bugle in an army band.
Mr. Grimaldi met in his wife, Carol, New York nightclub and took Patsy’s pizzeria on the first date. Were married in 1971.
A few times, Mr. Grimaldi left Patsy in some restaurants waiting for the tables, including the Jazz Club in Copacabana and Jammy Ryan. He was 57 years old and worked in a Brooklyn Waterfront cafe when he noticed an abandoned hardware store in the “rent”, a “rental” sign and payment phone with the surrounding wall. He took the phone and dialed the number. Not long ago, the coal pizza pizza was showing nucleus and elemental people who never tested people.
Matthew Grogan, an investment banker, was eaten at Patsy and opened a few weeks. Until that moment, he thought he knew what was good pizza.
“I told him, I have experienced cheating in all these years. This is the greatest food I have ever had,” “he remembered Juliana with grimans.)
Others seemed to agree, including critters, restaurant guide writers and customers. Some of them were known, like Warren Beatty, Bening Annette, who brought his wife. (So in the cinemas? “Mrs. Grimaldi asked until the famous grimide looks like a famous night.” Or he would call it. “Look, Marisa Tomei was more discrete when it was running.
Mrs. Grimaldi According to unwritten history, John Gotti Mob Boss in 1992 at the Court of Brooklyn, his lawyers held customers.
“We would gather each slice on paper and put them in the cases attached, John would be able to lunch our pizza,” he wrote.
In 1998, Grimaldes decided to sell the pizzeria to Frank Ciolli and testing his hand in retirement. Did not last. He did not contact Mr. Ciolli, who opened Grimaldi’s string They thought it did not defend Brooklyn’s standards around the country. When they knew that the old restaurant was evalujing, they lit the lease.
Mr. Ciolli, who led to the building next to Grimaldi, sued to stop opening again. Mr. Grimaldi and Mrs., he proclaimed an assertion that I sold me earlier that business was stealing again. “
An interchange arrived in the end. These days Juliana outer lines often distinguish from the external lines of Grimaldi.
Mr. Grimaldi, who lived in Queens, is alive in his sister, Esther Massa; A daughter, Victoria Strickland; and a grandson. His wife died in 2014. A son, Pat, died in 2018.
A Juliana Alcove has a small Sinatra hermitage. Jukebox was equipped with his pattress, Patsy’s (Aka Patsy Grimaldi’s AKKA Grimaldi’s), Sinatra’s records, Few packed by Dean Martin. Mr. Grimaldi has not had a strict delivery policy with an exception: Sinatra for the Lord.
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