NYC Mayor Eric Adams Approves Rules Controlling the Delicious Smokey Aroma of City’s Pizzerias
The regulation will come into effect on April 27.
The last time we checked on New York City, the state of chaos was such that New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a new five-point NYC subway safety plan, bringing in hundreds of National Guard troops and adding new security cameras.
The only thing lacking right now in the Big Apple is Haitian cannibals. But, I digress.
Apparently, normalcy has been restored to NYC to the point that Mayor Eric Adams has approved controversial rules regulating the amount of delicious, smokey aroma generated from the area’s pizzerias.
Democrat Mayor Eric Adams has approved a new green plan that requires facilities using wood- and coal-fired stoves to cut their smoke by 75 percent.
More than 130 businesses will be impacted by the law, including many famed pizza joints. Businesses can apply for an exemption from the mandate – which goes into effect on April 27 – but they must prove they can not financially meet the requirements.
Still, business must then cut their emissions by 25 percent.
‘Get the people doing crack on the corner of the street away from me and leave my wood-burning ovens alone,’ Alejandra Sanchez, a professional chef, told DailyMail.com. ‘We want health care. Leave our pizza alone.’
The costs of the ventilation control systems are enormous, and they are likely to force many pizzerias to close.
More than 100 iconic New York City pizzerias could be forced out of business thanks to a quietly approved plan requiring wood- and coal-fired stoves to cut carbon emissions by 75%, a pie shop owner told Fox News.
“This regulation will go a long way to put an end to charming wood-fired pizza restaurants in New York City,” Brooklyn pizzeria owner Paul Giannone, known as Paulie Gee, told Fox News. “A sad day in my opinion.”
…”Regulation after regulation puts more pressure on us and makes it difficult to do business, particularly now with the cost of labor has gone up, the cost of the goods we have to buy to produce our products — it’s just making it more difficult,” Giannone said in June.
The rule led a Jewish bakery to spend over $600,000 on new air filtration systems ahead of its approval, the New York Post reported. Another iconic pizzeria, John’s of Bleecker Street, spent more than $100,000 on a smoke reduction system.
The challenges are enormous for shops selling coal-fired pizza.
Grimaldi’s Pizza, which has three New York locations, has installed the systems already, according to Anthony Piscina, its co-owner.
In their Manhattan location, it costs $50,000 to install the air filtration systems, with the cost rising because the building, which was formerly a nightclub and church, is gothic in architecture and needs additional protections. “We have to do it. We can’t cook pizza any other way,” Piscina said.
To cook pizza in the traditional way, ovens need to reach 1,200 degrees. Only coal-fired ovens can reach such high temperatures.
The regulation will come into effect on April 27.
Of course, the kicker is that carbon dioxide is a life-essential gas, and Norwegian scientists have concluded changing levels are not related to any of the supposed temperature changes.
Dr Patrick Moore, co founder of Greenpeace
“Not only is carbon dioxide good, it is essential to life on earth and we need some more”
Embarrassing video for the eco cultists
— Richard Tice 🇬🇧 (@TiceRichard) June 9, 2023
But Mayor Adams gets to pretend he is doing something meaningful…so there is that.
Of course, the shops may close due to lacking customers as NYC residents flee to less liberty-crushing areas.
Expect the shrinkage to continue until New York reverses its tilt ever-more leftward.
From April 2020 to July 2022, Gotham’s population fell by nearly a half million people, or 5.3% — wiping out almost three-quarters of the gains over the previous decade, DiNapoli reports, citing Census figures.
That was more than double the state’s 2.6% drop, and it came while the nation overall was expanding by 0.6%.
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Very expensive tenant improvement. Add $10 to the cost of that pizza. Lose half your customers. NYC mayor adams gives himself pat on back and raise.
And eco-cultists celebrate.
They celebrate by ordering a keg of Bud Light and send out for… pizza.
Yeah, well, you can’t spell pizza without a “P in it.”
“Good news, everyone! We’ve saved the planet!”
Adams doesn’t have enough real problems to worry about? He has to waste his time and energy on crap like this? I know Adams claims to be a vegan, but for crying out loud, aren’t there some actually consequential things to worry about?
I don’t have real numbers, but I would not be surprised if the fires in a single day’s FDNY callouts account for more “green house gase” (puke) emissions than all of the restaurants and bakeries impacted by this rule. So what’s the real purpose of this new rule?
Don’t even get me started on how much money stands to be made by the manufacturers and installers of the new ventilation systems.
Shades of Nero.
And the band played on.
Whistling past the graveyard.
1. people get what they vote for.
they wanted this … give it to them
good and hard and often.
2. to those businesses that wish to leave NY … NC is open for business
come on down … would love to have a good NY pie …
we have family up there … most have left … almost all to Fla.
one to Jersey … he is not quite ready to leave NYC …
so, let me get this straight,…you want the very same people that elected the politicians that dream up this crap to come to your state to do more of the same?
just the guys who make pizza ..
in wood fired or coal fired ovens
the rest of em can stay up there
and bankrupt the state…
Yeah, well, yes and no.
Phoenix needs good pizzerias. And if they send up wood smoke*, so what? We’ve already determined that upcoming EPA pollution regulations will never be met in Maricopa County, just because of natural processes in our desert — even if all the inhabitants and structures were to vanish, the desert itself would exceed the EPA’s ludicrous limitations.
But we don’t want this guy:
‘We want health care. Leave our pizza alone.’
Neither one is in the constitution, clown… authorize one, and stuff like the other inevitably follows. And you’re too stupid to get that, which is why you vote NY Democrat. So stay home and suffer.
*Are these really “coal-fired” stoves rather than charcoal? Charcoal is wood, coal is not… coal is a mineral whose burning is accompanied by lots of toxic byproducts that you don’t want in your food.
I keep waiting for the moment when sane voters will have had enough of this BS but I fear the new mass harvested unverified ballot world we seem to be stuck in may forestall that accountability.
that which can not continue … will not.
when enough of the tax base runs
even Dems will pay attention.
Leave New York. We need great pizza in Dallas/FW.
Just vote like a Texan when you get here.
Texans voted for Sheila Jackson Lee. Did they not? Same for Peter Buttegieg (sp!)?
Are you thinking of Beto? Buttigieg was an Indiana mayor.
A hundred or so specialty pizzerias. There is room for them in America and they are encouraged to come here. New York [City and State] does not deserve them.
Subotai Bahadur
The south side of Birmingham (yes, Birmingham, y’all) has many award winning restaurants. A genuine New York pizzeria, not NY “style” but the real thing, should be welcomed and heavily patronized. Come on down!
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Does this only apply to pizza places, lots of BBQ places burn wood to cook and smoke the meats?
Only if they bake bread for sale on premises, like in California with the minimum wage carve-out.
Don’t forget the carve out for one…. count that…one chef that got to keep his natural gas exemption in Cali…… any close relationship to the gov is purely happenstance.
There is a workaround. Just pay BLM protesters to set fires within the ovens.
By all means. Blame this on Blacks. I hate BLM protestors as much as anyone, But they have nothing to do with pizza ovens in New York.
You’re just upset because I find your homosexual lifestyle to be aberrant and abhorrent.
The mayor is Amish?
I don’t know why you included in article of regulating emissions what scientists say about carbon dioxide.
It is not about CO2.
It has never been about CO2.
wrong, again
https://www.epa.gov/climatechange-science/basics-climate-change#:~:text=Carbon%20dioxide%20is%20the%20primary,reactions%2C%20such%20as%20cement%20manufacturing.
Carbon dioxide constitutes four one-hundredths of one percent of the air we breathe (or 400 parts per million).
No, he is correct. This story has nothing to do with CO2. I’m not even going to bother looking at your EPA link, because the EPA has nothing to do with this either.
What a surprise… More inane liberal BS…
To be fair, NY-style pizza needs all the help it can get, and tinkering with the wood-fired ovens will be detrimental. Everyone knows that Chicago-style deep dish is where it’s at.
(ducks to avoid lobs from people who can’t handle the truth) 🙂
Detroit is sending “enforcers”.
Nordic–looks like you’ve never had pizza in New Haven. You can have everything else in and about NH, but the pizza there is to die for.
I can see the Babylon Bee headline now:
“NYC Mayor orders genuine NYC pizza flown up from Florida”
Best saltimbocca I ever had, outside of Italy, was outside of Tampa. And I grew up in RI, which is to Italian restaurants what Arizona is to Mexican.
Perhaps the goal is to demolish profitable business and the environment is the pretext, the ruse.
We live in a society ever more beholden to a cult of fake science and superstition. A society so ignorant that it is willing to squander staggering amounts of resources and capital tilting at fantastic windmills. The amount of productive resources and capital diverted in this process is the greatest waste of wealth in human history.
Hoping for a complete and total pizza shutdown in nyc. Close them all.
Listen for the plaintiff cries of the woebegone losers who voted for the fascism in that city.
And with luck the restaurants left will see the opportunity to raise prices to the max with the shutdown of the pizza joints.
Suck it nyc.
“If we don’t deliver it in 30 minutes, go cry to your mamma.”
Hey, Adams found something in NYC that was still working.
So, he had to shut it down. Because that’s what he does.
Now they’re going to have to teach the National Guard to make pizza.
This is a bad move, but all the bellyaching in the article and the comments about carbon dioxide and the global warming hoax is irrelevant, because that is not what this regulation is about. This regulation has nothing to do with reducing CO2; it’s about reducing fine carbon particulates, which are actually bad for people. Not as bad as the radical public health nuts claim — nothing is as bad as they claim it is — but still definitely bad.
Adams may be correct that this regulation will reduce hospital visits, and even save lives; it’s at least plausible. That doesn’t justify driving people out of businesses they’ve been running the same way for years or decades; if the city really thinks the benefit from reducing smoke is worth the cost of installing the filters then it should pay most of that cost through tax incentives.
I remember the alarm bells on this move a few months ago and your right, it was about smoke particulates and had nothing to do with CO2. Why that is pointed out is a mystery other than CO2 is the boogyman of the moment and Adams may have thought that would give him the cover he needed.
As for the particulates. I doubt there will ever be a study that suggests the pizza ovens contributes to any measurable increase in hospital visits. The amount of particulates released from 100 restaurants over the size of a city is far too small.
I think it’s about a black guy not wanting an overwhelmingly white business sector to have a “free ride”.
Here’s a link to a piece that includes statements from Dr. Moore about the impact of CO2 on global warming and life on the planet. There are others about the subject in the “Times,” not The NY Times.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/the-big-climate-change-lie-the-co2-risk-to-the-planet-5270775
Bad enough yet?
If you vote for Democrats you simply don’t deserve good pizza
How, in the world, there are any businesses left in New York City is beyond me. But, wait, it’s about to get better. Anyone running a business in this country had better look up and educate yourselves about the CORPORATE TRANSPARENCY ACT. I believe it’s already in effect, and there are very harsh repercussions for non compliance. Ignorance will not be excused.
Meh. It’s already in the courts, and it’s gonna get hammered.
Actually, events outpaced me. It already got hammered.
National Small Business United et al v. Yellen et al
You have to love a judge who begins a ruling with:
“The late Justice Antonin Scalia once remarked that federal judges should have a rubber stamp that says STUPID BUT CONSTITUTIONAL.”
However, he didn’t so stamp the Corporate Transparency Act, which he ruled was “unconstitutional because it cannot be justified as an exercise of Congress’ enumerated powers.”