About Pizza Moto Bklyn

Pizza Moto Bklyn is an editorial project about Brooklyn pizza: the craft, the ovens, the neighborhoods, and the history that runs through all three. It publishes long-form, sourced pieces rather than listings, and it is not for sale to anyone it writes about.

The disclosure, stated plainly

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This is not the website of the Pizza Moto catering company. We do not represent it, own it, work for it, or speak for it. We cannot take a booking, quote for an event, or answer a question about its food. Pizza Moto trades today at pizzamoto.com, and that is the only place to reach it.

The reason the confusion is possible is worth explaining rather than burying.

Between roughly 2008 and 2011, pizzamotobklyn.com was the working website of Pizza Moto — then a mobile wood-fired pizza operation running a hand-built oven at the Brooklyn Flea and elsewhere. It had pages about the oven, the dough, the ingredients, the market and the press. Publications linked to it, including Martha Stewart's blog in October 2009.

The business grew, opened a restaurant at 338 Hamilton Avenue in 2015, closed that restaurant in February 2023 when the lease came up, and continued as a catering company under the shorter domain pizzamoto.com. The old domain lapsed and spent years as a parking page full of advertising.

This project now publishes on that address. We think a domain with a documented history should carry that history rather than a slot-machine of ads — but a history told honestly, by someone who is clearly not the original owner and says so.

What we do with the old site

Several pages here sit at their original 2009 URLs, capital letters and all: /The_Oven.html, /The_Dough_.html, /The_Ingredients.html, /The_Brooklyn_Flea.html, /The_Press_.html, /Surf_Report.html and /Pizza_Moto.html.

Where the original text survives in the Internet Archive, we reproduce it, clearly marked as archive material and dated. Where it does not, we say so rather than paraphrasing something we do not have. The pages are not thin redirects dressed up for search engines; each one is a real article about the subject that address used to cover.

We have deliberately not republished the 2010 telephone number and email address that appeared on the old homepage. They belong to a company that still trades, and reproducing them would send people to a business we have nothing to do with.

What we will not do

Impersonate anyone. We do not use Pizza Moto's logo, photographs, menus, marketing copy or brand marks, and we have built a visual identity that could not be mistaken for theirs.
Claim first-hand reporting we have not done. Nothing on this site is written from a visit. We do not say "we ate" or "we tried," because we did not. Everything here is assembled from documents, archives and published reporting, and we say which.
Publish volatile information we cannot verify. No hours, no prices, no menus, no phone numbers. Those change, we do not check them on the ground, and stale practical information is worse than none.
Take payment from anyone we cover. No sponsored posts, no affiliate links, no paid placement, no listings fees.

Who writes it

Pieces are published under the masthead rather than individual bylines. This is a desk-research publication — the work is finding documents, reading archives, cross-checking claims and writing them up, and a personal byline on a piece assembled that way would imply a kind of authority the method does not support.

What we offer instead of a name is a visible method and a source list at the foot of every article, with links you can check yourself. If you can go and read what we read, the byline matters much less.

The four subjects

Section	What it covers
Pizza	Styles, dough, fermentation, ingredients. What distinguishes one pie from another and why.
Ovens	Coal, wood, gas and deck. How heat gets into dough, and what each fuel does to the result.
Neighborhoods	Red Hook, Carroll Gardens, north Brooklyn, Bushwick. Why the map looks the way it does.
History	A century of Brooklyn pizza, the Brooklyn Flea, and the documented history of this domain.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, we want to fix it and we will say that we did. The editorial policy sets out how corrections are handled and what standard of evidence we apply before publishing a factual claim.

That policy also covers the case that matters most for a project like this: what we do if the present-day Pizza Moto company, or anyone else written about here, tells us something on this site misrepresents them.