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One of the world’s greatest pizzerias, Totonno’s in Coney Island, will reopen next month — seven months after a devastating fire closed the pie paradise.
The good news was first reported by Slice, the seminal pizza blog, but was confirmed this week by The Brooklyn Paper.
“Sometime in October is the target date,” said J.D. Strauss, manager of the Upper East Side branch of the acclaimed pizzeria, which missed its first two such “targets” for reopening.
It wasn’t all the fault of the pizzeria’s owners Lawrence and Louise “Cookie” Ciminieri, who said the Mermaid Avenue restaurant was so badly damaged by the March fire that the structure couldn’t even support the weight of the celebrated coal-burning oven, one of the few of its kind in the city.
“It would have been easier to just knock the place down and start over,” Ciminieri told the blog, “but we’re already in the middle of this [renovation] and just have to finish now.”
Strauss said that pizza fans could enjoy Totonno’s pies at both his Upper East Side branch as well as one on Second Avenue, a Manhattan boulevard.
But pizza lovers know that it’s not the same as making a pilgrimage to the original, 104-year-old pie shop.
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