The long read
The Oven
Two brick ovens destroyed by New York streets, and a third that solved it by handing the structural job to steel. The original 2009 text, restored at its original address.
Section 02
Ovens
A hearth, a fuel and a length of time. This section covers what each of the four ovens does to a crust, and the one that Pizza Moto built on a trailer because it could not have a building.
Explainer
Coal, wood, gas and deck
Four fuels, four pizzas. Why New York stopped permitting coal ovens, why the revival ran on wood, and how to read a crust and name the oven that made it.
Restored address
Surf Report
The old site kept a page of weather widgets. For a business whose oven lived on a trailer, the forecast was not background information — it was the operating condition.