Like three-million other losers stuck forever in the bowels of Brooklyn, when Recharger thinks about Grimaldi’s pizza, he salivates. The mere mental image of the extra-thin, extra-crisp crust is freakier than an LSD flashback. Now the pizzeria, located under the Brooklyn Bridge and rated number one in the ZAGAT survey from 1997—2005 (though, tragically, not 2006), is expanding to the Aviator Sports Complex, a $38 million project holding two indoor ice rinks, an 18,000-square-foot indoor basketball court, an indoor 16,000-square-foot gymnastics and dance floor, soccer and football fields, and set to open at the long-neglected Floyd Bennett Field.
The complex will also include stores and small restaurants. So desperate is the recently-retired Patsy Grimaldi to regain Zagat’s number one ranking, he will break with his own deep-held, anti-slice prejudice and, according to sliceny.com, offer slices. These will retail at $2.50, a bit north of the historical link between a subway fare and a pizza slice.
-- Ilya Rozhkov