Grimaldi’s to Move to 1 Front Street
November 21st, 2011
[UPDATE: Patsy Grimaldi to take over the original Grimaldi Pizza location, to open in March 2012.]
According to a story by The Brooklyn Paper, Grimaldi’s pizza will be moving next door to 1 Front Street next week. 1 Front Street was built in 1869 as Brooklyn’s first safety deposit bank. The cast iron building currently houses a restaurant/bar on the ground level and a dance floor on the second level.
As The Brooklyn Paper noted, last year, the landlord of Grimaldi’s tried to evict them for falling behind on rent and city taxes. “Instead, a judge ordered her to accept late payments and keep Grimaldi’s open. Waxman’s son Mark, who handles the property, vowed to boot the beloved joint as soon as its lease expired on Nov. 30.”
Grimaldi’s will serve its final pie at its current location on Nov. 28, then open one day later open in 1 Front St. The 1 Front Street location is bigger and will no doubt still attract a lot of tourists. What do you think about the move?
(Photo by New York Big Apple Images)
For more info on current restaurants, go to grimaldisnyc.com and no1-frontstreet.com.
One Front Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
(at Old Fulton Street in Fulton Ferry Landing)
November 21st, 2011 at 10:13 am
That’s awesome! A marriage of a great building and a great restaurant. It’ll be a lot easier to point tourists to Grimaldi’s now too with a landmark building housing them. I’ll be there on opening day!
November 21st, 2011 at 11:08 am
That place has been the kiss of death and never understood why. Its a great room. Grimaldi’s is probably the only hope for success in there…
November 21st, 2011 at 1:42 pm
Once you change the oven, the pie will never be the same.
does anyone know if they are bringing the old oven over??
November 21st, 2011 at 1:44 pm
It’s a better location than the current one, but will not be the same Grimaldi’s. I am told the oven will not be the same, but who knows, the pizza may improve. It’s not as good as it used to be 10 years ago.
November 21st, 2011 at 2:05 pm
According to pizzamarketplace.com, “One of the differences provided by the use of coal comes not from the coal smoke but by the intense heat a coal fire generates, said Keith Carpenter, president of Wood Stone. Coal provides about 13,000 BTUs of heat per pound, while wood provides about 6,500 BTUs per pound.” Coal ovens are illegal in NYC now, except for grandfathered locations.
November 21st, 2011 at 3:07 pm
I like/not love their Pizza. Glad they’re staying around. With the amount of business they do,if true,shame for not paying their rent and taxes on time.
By the way, if you want a decent tasteing frozen Pizza Costco sells one 3 for $10.00!
November 22nd, 2011 at 8:01 am
[...] locations, and he said the only obvious one is at 220 Water Street and the vacancy left after Grimaldi’s moves one building over. According to The L Magazine, “Mark Waxman, the manager of 19 Fulton Street, has a new tenant [...]
November 22nd, 2011 at 9:47 am
[...] it’s an attractive building (for investment potential) across the street from what will be Grimaldi’s new home at 1 Front Street, next to the Eagle Warehouse coop building, but with plenty of traffic passing [...]
November 22nd, 2011 at 11:33 am
Maybe their over-rated pizza will taste better. The few times I was forced to eat there by tourist friends, I had soggy pizza. Soggy pizza is a crime. I have had regular gas oven pizzas that tasted way better (Di Fara). The coal oven is marketing hype.
November 22nd, 2011 at 2:34 pm
I’ve eaten there about 5-6 times. Sometimes good, sometimes so-so. Seems inconsistent to me.
November 22nd, 2011 at 4:33 pm
They are soggy! Bring back Patsy! Those pies were the best!
November 22nd, 2011 at 5:45 pm
Coal oven is not hype at all. Go to Patsy’s in East Harlem (only coal guy that does slices) and taste that. Go to Totonnos’… isn’t that coal?
Grimaldi’s works fast, so doesn’t cook through.
November 25th, 2011 at 9:16 am
HOLY CANOLI! PATSY’S BACK. The new tenant will be none other than Patsy Grimaldi…
Best news ever!! Read it in the Post today.
November 25th, 2011 at 10:52 am
[...] than a week after news broke about Grimaldi’s moving next door to 1 Front Street, the NY Post published an article that Patsy Grimaldi will come out of retirement to open, or [...]
November 25th, 2011 at 10:54 am
Thanks Mike – Patsy Grimaldi to take over the original Grimaldi Pizza location dumbonyc.com/?p=9234.
November 29th, 2011 at 2:41 pm
[...] move to 1 Front Street is delayed due to an untimely death in the family and the Department of Buildings has issued a [...]
December 15th, 2011 at 12:26 pm
[...] Grimaldi’s location at 19 Old Fulton Street closed yesterday. The new location will be opening next door (1 Front Street), but there’s no opening date at this time. The move to 1 Front Street was [...]