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BROOKLYN WEEKLY, AUGUST 25, 2019
Check, please!
Iconic Park Slope eatery asks locals
to bankroll much needed renovation
Dizzy’s owner Matheo Pisciotta launched a GoFundMe campaign on Aug. 19 to help with renovations to
the 21-year-old Park Slope diner. Photo by Aidan Graham
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
An iconic Park Slope diner
is looking to renovate —
and the owner wants locals
to pick up the tab!
Dizzy’s Diner — which
has served cakes and coffee
out of the same Ninth
Street and Eight Avenue
street storefront since 1997
— launched a GoFundMe
campaign on Aug. 19 to
bankroll a much needed
upgrade, which the owner
said could mean life or
death for the neighborhood
eatery.
“We’ve been here for
over 20 years, and I want
to be here for another 10 —
but I can’t be here the way
it is now,” said Matheo Pisciotta.
Pisciotta is aiming to
hit an ambitious fundraising
goal of $20,000, which
will help fi nance construction
of a new dining room
layout, a modern paint job,
stylish new fl ooring, and
more.
“It’ll still have the diner
feel, but we want to create a
fresh new vibe. We’re going
to do some new tiling, and a
new fl oor,” he said. “And no
more bright colors — that
might have been good 15
years ago, but we want it to
Pisciotta is asking locals to help fund renovations at the Ninth
Street diner, but said the mechanical horse out front will stay.
Matheo Pisciotta
we want to make it a little
more modern.”
Pisciotta shuttered Dizzy’s
Fifth Avenue counterpart
in 2017, and used the
savings to fund some minor
upgrades to the Ninth
Street location, but says he
doesn’t have the dough to
fi nish the job, and is hoping
the generosity of locals will
help plug the gap.
“It’s a big job, and we
just kept putting it off because
there wasn’t enough
money to do it,” he said.
“I was planning on doing
it all myself... but the Go-
FundMe would provide
some breathing room.”
Pisciotta says he’s considering
special rewards
for substantial contributors
— like an honorary
plaque on a bar stool, or
discounted diner grub —
but nothing has been fi nalized
yet.
For now, Pisciotta hopes
the eatery’s long history
in Park Slope will move
people to contribute to the
fundraising effort and help
bankrolling the renovation
work.
“I never thought it
would become such a part
of the community, and
such a part of the neighborhood,”
he said.
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