I was looking for a pizza spot around midtown west for a friend today, and after searching through the many scattered pizza mentions, I remembered I had thought a single pizza thread might be worth having.
So. NYC Pizza.
Please mention:
Feel free to link old reports here as well.
Want to merge with this thread?
I saw that, but it’s from 2015 and soliciting specific recs for a trip
I think a stand-alone thread that covers everything makes more sense, which doesn’t exist yet
LITTLE ITALY PIZZA (UWS)
MOTORINO (UWS)
FRANCESCO’S (UWS)
LA TRAVIATA (UWS)
Ok
Tavola, 9th Ave/38th St/. Quite good. Neapolitan style. Whole pies only. When really busy they forget to rotate the pie, though, so remind the waiter when you order.
Longo Bros. 9th Ave/37th St. As above but they DO turn the pie. But don’t say ‘pie,’ as it upsets the owner. Whole pies only.
99-cent or ‘buck a slice’ joints are all over Manhattan, almost all now up-priced to $1.50. Any one of them may be better or worse than others, but not necessarily the next time to stop it… Most are adequate for sustenance and best viewed as purveyors of New York’s Unofficial Vitamin B-12 providers. Most are small, w/1- or 2-people working like dogs in cramped, hot, dark spaces. In these places, I tip.
Juliana’s - 19 Old Fulton Brooklyn
I have been going to this spot for pizza since the place was called Patsy’s, there were no internet food sites and a not so old guy with the same name came by your table to ask how ya doin? Oh, and back then I could get a parking spot out front 9 times out of 10. Stayed through the name change but stopped going shortly after the ownership change as the pizza was markedly going downhill. Wrote the first review in CH when it reopened with an older familiar guy prowling the room. A sentimental favorite. I always get a roasted pepper and sausage pie.
I’m a Motorino fan…especially when I have a hankering for sausage and onion, as very few places (in my experience) do that, and Motorino does it well for my tastebuds. Yes, it’s a bit soggy in the middle, but it is cooked, and soggy is a Neopolitan pizza feature, not a bug.
Also:
SONG 'E NAPULE (UWS)
MAMA’S TOO (UWS)
Both of these options better than La Traviata, in my opinion, though I’ll grab a slice from La Traviata, if I am out and nearby and hungry.
Scarr’s
Gas oven
LES
Slice or Whole
Seating, but no tableservice
Manero’s
Gas Oven
Chinatown / Little Italy
Slice or Whole
Seating, but no tableservice
Patsy’s
Coal fired
East Harlem / UES
Slice or Whole
Seating with tableservice
Gosh I haven’t been to Patsy’s in years. Used to be a favorite when you wanted to get together with a few people for pizza that wasn’t counter service. The rolls tided you over till the pizza showed up.
Except there are degrees of soggy 
- and puddle is not my favored degree
(Maybe they were off the days I went, or I just don’t like their bake.)
FIORENTINA (midtown west)
This is where we ended up today after some photo research.
The grandma slices looked good too, though we didn’t get any.
Totonno’s on Coney Island is back serving pizza.
For a long while it looked like it would never reopen from the pandemic, as the family pursued a model of selling online for shipment only. I guess that didn’t work out.
Right now the schedule looks like weekends only. In the summer I saw they were open during the week as well.
This is a pizza worth traveling for, though I was there only before the pandemic.
Not really.
When I’m in NYC, I just really want the quintessential NYC slice.
And those spots sort of hit the spot for me.
looks really good, will have to get over there. I hope you don’t mind, I asked a moderator if they’d consolidate your pictures with your original post on the place.
