$1 pizza getting less expensive on Avenue C

99 cents!

Here's what is coming soon to Avenue C between Ninth Street and 10th Street... The Mosaic Cafe closed here in September.

Breaking: East Village has the most pizza places of any neighborhood in Manhattan

That's the word from the New York City Economic Development Corporation today... Using the latest available data from the Department of Health restaurant inspection results, researchers found that the East Village (zip 10003) has 33 pizza places.

The StatsBee Tumblr has more details on the survey... which you can find here.

[Image: NYCEDC analysis of NYC DOHMH data]

Naked Pizza bares new sign on East 14th Street

Yesterday, workers put up the sign for the incoming Naked Pizza shop on 14th Street just steps away from Third Avenue... it's the second NYC location of the New Orleans-based company... per the website:

Founded in 2006, based in New Orleans and backed by Mark Cuban and The Kraft Group, Naked Pizza's mission is to revolutionize how we think about fast food. We believe that the product, business model and ethos of the brand will prove that conscious capitalism can make a difference.

Anyway, the pizza is supposed to not make you a fat slob. Per the website (again):

NAKED = Natural: Our dough, sauce and cheese contain no additives, preservatives, colorants or weird chemicals of any kind.
Fewer Calories: We reduce the calories with our multi-grain dough mix and by not adding sugar or butter to the dough or sauce. Our cheese is a great tasting skim milk mozzarella.
Prebiotics: Called an invisible super fiber, prebiotics improve your balance of healthy probiotic bacteria for improved immunity.
Multi-Grain: Our diverse blend of ancestral grain and seeds (more than 10) and selected for maximum nutrients and taste.
Probiotics: Probiotics are health-giving bacteria that live in our guts and essential to a sense of balance. We use a heat-resistant probiotic.
More Protein: Our mixture of multi-grain flours and numerous whole grains boost the levels of important plant proteins. Increasing levels of protein help the body achieve optimal performance and help reduce hunger
Less Fat: No trans fats, no butter, and our 50/50 whole and skim milk mozzarella keeps the fat in check.
Better Taste: When you add it all up, we have created the worlds healthiest and best tasting pizza that can be part of your healthy lifestyle.

If you want to plumpen up, then you'll have to wait until the 5 Napkin Burger opens next door.

Former Cafe Centosette space becoming a fancy-pants pizza place

As you may have heard around the pizzasphere today... Michael White, who gives foodies boners with his fare at places like Marea and Ai Fiori, is opening a pizzeria called Nicoletta on Second Avenue at 10th ... the former Cafe Centosette, which closed in April. (Grub Street heard the rumors going back to September.)

According to Diner's Journal:

[T]he pizzas at Nicoletta ... will be baked in a gas-fired brick oven but would be "different, crisper" thanks to both his technique and a flour that is lower in protein.

There will be six or eight pizzas, with ingredients like sausage made on the premises. He plans to use a whole-milk mozzarella made to his specifications in Wisconsin. The restaurant, with about 60 seats plus 10 on the sidewalk, will have a takeout window, but will not sell slices.

As Jeremiah put it today: "Here comes yet another fucking upscale pizzeria for the East Village, where there have always been plenty of good, cheap pizza places."

Nicoletta is on the CB3/SLA docket Monday night.

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition

[Last night on Avenue A by Bobby Williams]

The smell of death in an East Village apartment (Curbed)

Manhattan Theatre Source vanishing in Greenwich Village (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)

About the ice skating rink for Stuy Town (Stuy Town Living)

The Rat Castle of Ludlow Street OK'd for completion (BoweryBoogie ... the Lo-Down)

About those sheep heads on East 13th Street (Ephemeral NY)

The history of Russ & Daughters (Off the Grid)

Pop-up art at Russ & Daughters (DNAinfo)

A deconstructed McRib sandwich (East Village Eats)

Vote for stuff in the Village Voice Web Awards (The Village Voice)

And Dave on 7th notes the change in hours here at Sal's on Avenue A near Sixth Street...

...opening a little later in the afternoon now...

Plywood Proclamations: You Are Pizza! We Are Pizza! Eat the Pizza! Eat The Pizza!

Speaking of Restaurant (turnover) Row, a sign is now up for the incoming L'asso EV pizzeria on First Avenue near Seventh Street ...

As you may recall, L'asso partner Greg Barris told Patrick Hedlund at DNAinfo that "we're definitely going to make people a little worried. There’s an endless amount of pizza in that neighborhood, but there really isn’t anyone doing what we’re up to."

Krust Pizza opening on East 14th Street

Between Second Avenue and Third Avenue... replaces the 14th Street Pizza Place.

Noted

You may soon be able to buy frozen Artichoke Pizzas. (Eater)

L'asso EV thinks it will make the local pizza competition 'a little worried'

The folks behind Mott Street pizzeria L’asso aren't timid about entering a crowded pizza market.

"I think we're definitely going to make people a little worried," partner Greg Barris said of the competition yesterday in an interview with Patrick Hedlund at DNAinfo. "There’s an endless amount of pizza in that neighborhood, but there really isn’t anyone doing what we’re up to."

L'asso EV is opening an outpost on First Avenue near Seventh Street in the fall, as Hedlund noted. (L'asso is taking over the former Bonjoo space.)

And what makes it so special?

"L’asso prides itself on serving D.O.C.-certified pies — a designation reserved for pizza made to the standards of the Italian government. The restaurant also uses non-bromated flour not typically found in pizza doughs, despite the fact that the additive, potassium bromate, is a known carcinogen."

Their pizzas include specialty toppings like homemade potato chips, truffle oil, mascarpone and walnuts.

(Anyone who has eaten their pizza want to chime in?)

Anyway! Our friend Rebecca Marx asks a very reasonable question over at Fork in the Road: How much more pizza does the East Village really need?

She notes there are 44 pizza places in the East Village. (And no — we're not counting Roberta's at the Urban Dunk Think Tank.)

Per Marx:

"[W]hile we appreciate the plenitude and variety, the whole thing is getting a bit rote: fancy pizzeria announces intentions to open/expand into the neighborhood, promises to forever alter the pizza landscape, opens, gets blogged about, and settles into comfortable mundanity. If you want to worry people, open a slaughterhouse."

+1 on the slaughterhouse please!

P.S.
Anyway, we still miss Five Rose's Pizza.

On the Bowery, Forcella pizza shows a sign, Twitter account

As we pointed out back in February, a new pizza shop is coming to 334 Bowery, former home of Bowery Tattoo...

Just checking in on the progress at Forcella — La Pizza di Napoli. Coming Soon signs are up!

And they're on Twitter...

Workers still have a way to go to hit that opening Summer 2011 mark...

In any event, this isn't actually a new Twitter account... Italian Pizzaiolo and Chef Giulio Adriani has a place in Williamsburg too. Who has eaten there?

Yankee Pizza coming soon to Avenue C

Here near 11th Street, at the site of the short-lived Bread N Butta ...

...part of the burgeoning Yankee Deli empire...

Today in photos of people who ran 2.25 miles and ate 3 slices of pizza

Our friend Melanie Neichin at East Village Corner sent along a few shots from earlier today ... from the second annual NYC Pizza Run at Tompkins Square Park...

Why people will be running and eating pizza and stuff tomorrow in Tompkins Square Park

Oh, tomorrow marks the second annual NYC Pizza Run at Tompkins Square Park. Ninety runners, uh, run 2.25 miles, stopping at three checkpoints to eat slices of pizza.

If you want to take part, you're too late. It's booked.

If you want to take pictures of runners throwing up pizza, then please send them to our friends at EV Heave.

You can find more info here.

Fat Sal's is open now on Avenue A

Here's at the former APizzA spot on Avenue A, the fifth NYC location of Fat Sal's opened yesterday.

Also, for the record... we once noted a reader's concern about the pizzeria's new ventilation blower that was really going to "suck (or blow) big time" (heh) ... However, the reader has noted that Fat Sal's has been a very good neighbor since moving in, and they even spent extra money on a less-noisy ventilation system...

Previously on EV Grieve:
Fat Sal's coming to Avenue A

Here comes Fat Sal's

On March 30, we noted that the fourth Manhattan location of Fat Sal's was taking over the ApizzA space on Avenue A... now the signage has gone up...

Meanwhile, a reader who lives near Fat Sal's noted that they built a ventilation duct up the back of that building ... and they're going to install a ventilation blower on the roof next to the vent. Given the tentative hours (noon to 4 a.m.), "This is going to suck (or blow) big time," the reader noted.

Singas Pizza closes for renovation and new management on Avenue C

Singas Pizza relocated to Avenue C and Sixth Street from Second Avenue and 11th Street back in December 2009.

And last week, Singas closed up shop...

...sign says the place will reopen under new management.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Singas Pizza opening on Avenue C

Fat Sal's coming to Avenue A

APizzA closed on Avenue A in early February. A tipster notes that the space will become home to the fifth NYC location of Fat Sal's.

So... anyone ever eaten a slice from Fat Sal's?

Previously on EV Grieve:
Why APizzaA closed

Pizza being delivered to former tattoo shop on the Bowery

Looks as if the look vacant former home of Bowery Tattoo has a new tenant...

... signs just went up for Forcella — La Pizza di Napoli here between Bond and Great Jones...

As BoweryBoogie had reported, the folks behind the Vbar were looking to open a bar here two years back... And maybe a little competition now for McNally's Pulino's?

And here's a slice of the CBGB pizza

Last Friday, I mentioned that Two Boots on Bleecker was introducing a new CBGB slice. I stopped by to try a slice after work. Sold out!

Anyway, finally remembered to swing by to try again...

I haven't had any slices from Two Boots in a good long time... and I was surprised by how much I liked this one...

Previously on EV Grieve:
2011, the year punk pizza broke: Two Boots introducing the CBGB slice

2011, the year punk pizza broke: Two Boots introducing the CBGB slice

Lenny Kaye will be on hand Friday afternoon at 2 for the unveiling of "CBGB (OMFUG)" pizza — available only at the 74 Bleecker St. Two Boots near Broadway.

Per an e-mail:

"Join us for a free taste of 'The CBGB (OMFUG),' check out the rock 'n roll memorabilia, and look out for other indigenous pizzas coming soon to all Two Boots locations."

The pizza has chicken, broccoli, garlic and basil pesto. (A slice is $3.75.)

As the tipster who sent this along noted, "I'm not sure how well broccoli goes with pesto, but it's Two Boots — they'll make it work."