Patsey Grimaldi, a restaurant, Menouf Pizza Restaurant in the Brooklyn Bridge Bridge, won new fans of the oldest pizza style in New York City with carefully made pies that helped start a national movement towards the literal pizza, on February 13 in Queens. It was 93.
His brother, Frederick Grimaldi, confirmed the death, at New No.-Pesphenetean Queens Hospital.
Mr. Grimaldi began selling pies in 1990 under the name Patsy’s. In those days, legal skirmishes periodically disturbed the city’s pizza scene, and it was not long before the messages from other Patsy lawyers were threatened to rename the Patsy Grimaldi place, then simply Grimaldi’s. After many years, he reopened his restaurant in his name, praising his mother. Today this is a sign of Juliana Pizza.
Under any name, Mr. Grimaldi’s pizza attracted long queues of dinner abroad, on Old Volton Street, who were hungry for roasted peppers at home, white baths of fresh mozzarella and delicate scales, baked within minutes by a stalemate pile of charcoal Anthraset.
Like the chefs who trained him, Mr. Grimaldi collected the techniques he learned in the first teenager working in Patsei Pizza in East Harlam, owned by his uncle Pascali Lanceiri. Mr. Lancieri was one of the little brothers of Napoli immigrants, including the founders of Napolitana Pizza in Totono in Brooklyn and Jones, Plaker Street in Greenwich Village, who came to New York residents to the pizza in the early twentieth century.
Mr. Grimaldi reached those assets when, after a long profession as a waiter, opened his own place with the newly built charcoal oven. At the same time, the exact interest he brought to his craft- capture fennel sausage in the pork store in Queens every morning, for example, while the other pizza was buying it from the great distributors- followed it.
“It was the first pizza similar to the craftsmen” in the city, “said Anthony Mangiri, the owner of Ona Napolitana Pizza in the Lower Manhattan.
He said: “In fact, it was the first place that was opened, which had a connection to the old school, but he was thinking about a little further, a little more than food.”
Patsey Frederick Grimaldi was born on August 3, 1931, in Bronx to Federico and Maria Juliana (Lanceiri) Grimaldi, immigrants from southern Italy. His father, a music teacher and a barber, died when Patsey was twelve dining room. Regardless of a short vacation in the early fifties of the last century to serve the army, it remained until 1974.
Patsei Pizza kept late in those days, and Mr. Grimaldi grew in the care of artists, mobs, chefs outside the service and other creatures at night, including Hamfrei Bogart and Lauren Pacal, Rodney Dangrafeld, Joe Dimajio, Frank Sinatra.
The association that he formed with Mr. Sinatra continued for decades. Mr. Grimmaldi personally delivered Patsy – Big Board Pies – when Mr. Sinatra remained in his wing at Waldorf Astoria. In 1953, they faced each other in Hawaii, where Mr. Sinatra was filming “from here to eternity.”
“what are you doing here?” The singer asked the waiter. Mr. Grimaldi was sent by the army to play Bash in the army squad.
Mr. Grimaldi met his wife to Carroll, at a nightclub in New York and took her to Patsei Pizza in his first history. They got married in 1971.
After a short time, Mr. Grimaldi Pats left to wait for tables in a series of restaurants, including Cobacabana and Jazz Club Jimmy Ryan. He was 57 years old, and he was working at the Brooklyn Witton Café when he noticed an abandoned store on Old Volton Street with a “rent” brand in the window and a paid phone called the near wall. Pick the phone and call the number. It was not long before, it was showing the fine and the primary pleasures of the coal’s pizza for people who never tried it.
Matthew Grogan, an investment banker, ate in Patsey a few weeks after its opening. Until that moment, I think he knows what a good pizza is.
I said, “I was living a fraud throughout these years. This is the greatest food I have at all, “remember in an interview. (Later Juliana founded with Grimalis.)
Others seem to agree, including critics, and a book of restaurants and customers. Some of them were well known, like Warren Betty, who brought Ante Pening, his wife. (“Thus, are you in the cinema too?” Mrs. Grimaldi asked her. “Mail Gibson is here tonight!” He was calling. Or: “See, it’s Marisa Tommy!” It was more secret when I entered Marissa Tommy’s actual.
According to an unpublished date written by Mrs. Grimaldi, when the head of the mob John Gotti was being tried in 1992 in the Federal Court in the center of Brooklyn, his lawyers became frequent dining agents abroad.
She wrote: “We used to wrap each slice in chips and put them in their accessories so that John could get our pizza for lunch,” she wrote.
In 1998, Grimaldis decided to sell pizza to Frank Ciolli and try their hands upon retirement. It did not last. Their relationship with Mr. Solly, who opened A series of Grimaldi Throughout the country they believed had failed to support the criteria it set in Brooklyn. When they learned that their old restaurant was expelled, they captured the rent.
Mr. Ciolli, who transferred Grimaldi to the adjacent building, is a lawsuit against them to prevent them from reopening. Master and Mrs. Grimaldi, who claimed a written testimony, were trying to “steal the works he sold to me earlier.”
A truce was finally reached. These days, the lines outside Juliana can not often be distinguished from the lines outside Grimaldi.
Mr. Grimaldi, who lived in Queens, survived his sister Esther Masa; Daughter, Victoria Strickland; And the grandson. His wife died in 2014. Ibn Bat died in 2018.
Stones in Juliana carry a small Senatra shrine. JukeBox was stored in Forerunner, Patsy’s (also known as Patsy Grimaldi’s Aka Grimaldi’s), with Sinatra records, interspersed with a little Din Martin. Mr. Grimaldi maintained a strict non -delivery policy except for one: to Mr. Sinatra.