The drama over beloved Brooklyn pizzeria Grimaldi's and its rent dispute-prompted move around the corner continues: Grimaldi's employees had been promising customers the same coal oven pizza at the new location, but now the Post reports that the Department of Buildings "put the kibosh on plans by the world-famous pizzeria to move into larger space next door after learning that its operators quietly installed a coal-fired brick oven at the new site without approval." The pizza war is on! more ›

It's a pizzeria showdown between a beloved NYC joint that started selling pizzas in 1905 and an upstart in Trenton, NJ that started its pizza business in 1912: The Garden State's Papa Tomato's Pies says it's the oldest pizzeria in the country because Lombardi's shut its business for ten years. Oh, it's on! more ›

Yesterday, Jersey City authorities were able to defuse a homemade bomb in a vacated pizzeria on Palisade Avenue. Jersey City Deputy Police Chief Peter Nalbach said the bomb was "very rudimentary... If you watched 'MacGyver' as a kid you could probably figure out how to do it. But if it had gone off, there would have been major destruction." And police arrested the building's landlord, who allegedly was trying to set up the pizzeria tenant! more ›

An hour before an allegedly drunk driver accelerated onto a Midtown sidewalk, killing a pregnant woman and injuring another, a cab driver ended up driving into a pizzeria on Amsterdam Avenue at West 106th Street. Seven people—including the cab's passenger—were injured and one victim was seriously injured. more ›

Jersey based pizza fanatic Scott Wiener (pictured) may have found a way to turn his appetite into a career with his just-launched Pizza Tours of New York City. Every Sunday, Wiener will escort up to 32 ravenous adults on a pizza tasting odyssey to half a dozen pizzerias stretching from Lombardi’s on Spring Street to Louie & Ernie’s in the Bronx. more ›