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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The regulator’s name is Timbers!
You can’t make this stuff up!
Yeah - "common-sense" means "no evidence", and who in the world is a restaurant and environmental justice group? A translation: "We asked two-bit politicians and shrieking activists with no scientific credentials at all." And called it a consensus!
So you are a racist? never mind, who cares? You are a nut. Do you ever shut up? LOL
Your mother is calling.
That might change when the city starts messing with their New York style pizza!
Bring what? Who are you talking to?
Quit posting and go away. I am done with you.
People burning yard waste is routine in my FL neighborhood. He will probably complain about that next.
Now Ima gonna get real madda you freaks. You mudda prolly made them English muffin “pizzas.”
You never told me anything about your mother and I do not know what in the hell you are talking about.
Get lost lunatic.
We have a great pizza place nearby owned by a family that fled Brooklyn 20 years ago. They brought their recipes and their family. You can fill up on two slices. And they love living in SE Texas.
There are many, many, because anybody can make a pizza. Finding the good ones is the job.
When I walk out of the door of the office building, I can turn left, cross a street, and there’s a pizza place. I can also turn right, cross a street, and find another one. Then there’s one on the next block. Turn right at the next corner, there’s another one down the block. Turn left and there are all the ones on 6th Avenue. I’m not kidding.
Nope, I’ll stay. But I won’t talk to you anymore.
Sounds right
Imagine the gargantuan impact on the fate of the earth’s climate this will have. 😜🤪
Thankfully my new home has a gas stove and oven that is grandfathered in.
LOL!! My (Irish) mother did occasionally make those awful English muffin "pizzas" when I was really young. Fortunately REAL pizza restaurants sprung up in my old neighborhood years later, so the English muffin pizzas were retired. LOL
Are you living in NYC?
Can you believe a gas stove has to be 'grandfathered' in? What if your stove goes kaput years from now and you can't replace it? This is all so ridiculous...
That's awesome! It's not always easy to find decent pizza outside of the northeast (and a few other places in the US).
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