Posted on 06/26/2023 11:28:30 AM PDT by lowbridge
Historic Big Apple pizza joints could be forced to dish out mounds of dough under a proposed city edict targeting pollutant-spewing coal-and-wood-fired ovens, The Post has learned.
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection has drafted new rules that would order eateries using the decades-old baking method to slice carbon emissions by up to 75%.
“All New Yorkers deserve to breathe healthy air and wood and coal-fired stoves are among the largest contributors of harmful pollutants in neighborhoods with poor air quality,” DEP spokesman Ted Timbers said in a statement Sunday. “This common-sense rule, developed with restaurant and environmental justice groups, requires a professional review of whether installing emission controls is feasible.”
The rule could require pizzerias with such ovens installed prior to May 2016 to buy pricey emission-control devices — with the owner of one Brooklyn joint saying he’s already tossed $20,000 on an air filter system in anticipation of the new mandate.
“Oh yeah, it’s a big expense!” said Paul Giannone, the owner of Paulie Gee’s in Greenpoint. “It’s not just the expense of having it installed, it’s the maintenance. I got to pay somebody to do it, to go up there every couple of weeks and hose it down and you know do the maintenance.”
Giannone added that while the air filter is “expensive and it’s a huge hassle,” it also has some upsides.
“My neighbors are much happier. I had a guy coming in for years complaining that the smoke was, you know, going right into his apartment and I haven’t seen him since I got the scrubber installed.”
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And most likely it will be cooked and served by New Yorkers given the rate people are leaving the state.
Really? Just how many pizza stoves are there in NY and how much pollution do they generate?
Schadenfreude 🍕 🔥 😆
Disney.
My thoughts exactly.
“DEP spokesman Ted Timbers...” LOL!
Guess he was barking up the wrong tree.
Eric is giving Dinkins a run for worst mayor in history.
It’s a northeast thing.
Sally’s in New Haven has a coal fired oven burning since the 1930s. It is part of what makes Sally’s Apizza Sally’s. There is no scent or aroma better for the soul than great pizza cooked in a coal oven. Hickory smoked ribs are second place.
Do you think the Democrat voters in NYC have figured out what they voted for yet?
They only vote at a rate of a little over 20% of registered voters, so there’s great apathy there.
Two options:
1. Throw the morons out of office.
2. Leave. Flee. Escape with your lives!
We knew option 1 was beyond the realm of possibilities and exercised option 2; hit the eject button and left everyone and everything we had ever known in 1995.
"My neighbors are much happier. I had a guy coming in for years complaining that the smoke was, you know, going right into his apartment and I haven't seen him since I got the scrubber installed."
If NYC were still reliably voting Dem, then Deep State wouldn’t have shoved RCV down its throat.
Just sell pizzas 25% cooked. That saves 75% in energy costs.
Renders a different taste.
They definitely exist and some small mom and pop shops exclusively use them.
I don’t think they make the connection between their vote and things like this.
Have they voted for it? or is that the carefully crafted perception and their voter-fraud operation is better than the Biden VFO?
And the government has always been fair and equal when applying those environmental laws right?
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