that's a lot

Isn’t it?

brooklyn goes to the dogs

and food deliveries, too

La Grata rebranded

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The pepperoni pizza’s even better.

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And it was great before. 

Thank you, Keith.

heavy drinker

firearms right heah

ironman

http://clocktowertenants.com/2017/04/inspirations-doorstep.html

just ouch

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into the mouth of the wolf

First there was the Bruckner, then the Clock became Charlies; 

Ceetay opened on Alexander and now we are blessed with 

La Grata, woodfired pizza right around the corner.

Italian Executive Chef Erminio Conte has been around the block a few times, so he brings the highest quality ingredients to his new home on Alexander.

The store itself is spare industrial chic: 

cool tile, concrete, glass and steel with dueling, 

wood-burning ovens to warm things up.

We started with the Burrata pugliese, $14, 

a large, tender ball of cheese so spectacularly fresh we barely noticed the oven-softened, cherry tomatoes underneath. 

Of course we ate them. :-)

Her pepperoni $16 was terrific, the grainy, chewy meat noticably superior to the usual pizza joint.

And the crusts are just-right thin, perfectly crispy and spotted with authentic, delicious black wood char.

Erminio said the whole process takes about 90 seconds 

in the withering hot ovens.

My dining companion was just back from Milan and she said the Margherita there was not as good as this one, $11.

Plus, the service has a familiar face here and there, so I suggest you get over there right now because La Grata is going to get busy.

In bocca al lupo!

in the the shadows of Mugler Shoring

Take a short walk past the Bruckner Bar towards Beethoven Piano and you arrive at Mugler Shoring, along the Harlem River.

The Mugler grandson runs it now, but founder Richard Mugler Sr. had a big problem in June of 1940.

He had been charged with bribery and graft in a NYC contract.

He could trust his partner.

But could he trust William Sebek, his young bookkeeper,

 not to sing?

His concern was soon resolved. Sebek was found dead in the west Village with a fractured skull.

A 1930’s census described Sebek as “bookkeeper by occupation”.

Yet the medical examiner’s report described him as a “crane operator,” something his family denied.

The medical report said he had been over-inflating a tire on a crane when it burst. It claimed the rim had broken free and struck him on the head and killed him.

According to the New York Times and with the primary witness now out of the way, the case fell apart. 

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Mr. Mugler and his partner walked away from the whole episode, acquitted of financial wrongdoing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/13/us/13mystery.html?pagewanted=all