The city is cranking up the heat on a Brooklyn pizza war.
Frank Ciolli, who this week vacated his Grimaldi’s pizzeria on Old Fulton Street, won a rare city OK for a coal-fired oven in his new space next door, which opens today.
“He can proceed with this oven, but he is still subject to enforcement from other city agencies,” said Buildings spokeswoman Jennifer Gilbert, adding that the new oven will be in compliance with regulations.
Ciolli was booted in a rent dispute from the DUMBO pizzeria he bought from the legendary Patsy Grimaldi, who plans to return to his old space and coal-fired oven.
“The pie will be the same, maybe a little better,” Ciolli told The Post.
Grimaldi, 80, wasn’t around to dispute Ciolli’s claim because he was traveling, a spokeswoman said.
But he has previously announced plans to again start serving his famed thin-crust pies at the storefront at 19 Old Fulton St..
The new joint run by the coal-oven legend is going to be named Juliana’s, after Grimaldi’s late mother.
“I don’t think he’s ever going to get in there,” Ciolli said. “But competition is good.”