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Coney Island Pizzeria Totonno's Plans to Rebuild After Fire
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Jen Chung
Published Mar 15, 2009
Modified Mar 15, 2009
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Serious Eats' Ed Levine called Totonno's owner Lawrence Ciminieri to find out how the pizzeria is doing after yesterday's fire. Ciminieri said, "Everything is going to be fine. The fire broke out in the coal storage area when we were closed. It must have been ignited by something backed up in the oven. The back two rooms are gone. The dining room is fine. The oven will have to be re-bricked, but that is something we do every few years anyway. I think we'll be back open in a month. Tell everybody thanks for me, Ed. Everyone's been so supportive." Totonno's opened in 1924; one upset customer told NY1, "When you hear about it it hurts because it's been a tradition for years. I grew up going here and my kids, and probably their kids will grow up having that pizza. "
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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