I dig Two Boots, and John’s on the corner of 6th and Bleeker is the bomb, but other than that I find the city to have mostly sub-par pizza. I spent most of my youth in Boston, and the have a ton of great pizza there. I don’t understand why it all sucks here.
DaLovin’Dj
Here in Chicago, we have a thing we call “barbecue,” but I
would never ask “why is all the barbecue so bad here?”
You’re just in the wrong town for pizza.
In NYC, the best pizza is at Famous Rays. It’s easy to find, since there seems to be an Original Famous Rays about every 10 blocks. :rolleyes:
You’re kidding, right? You can’t find good pizza in New York? It’s not like trying to find a parking spot.
I’ve only been to a handful of truly bad pizza joints in NYC. Perhaps they just do it differently in Boston. Two Boots is real good, by the way.
The pizza places I swear by are all uptown, near my apartment. There’s V&T’s on Amsterdam around 110th. You can get bath-mat sized slices at Koronet, on 111th and Broadway. While the veggie toppings aren’t so great, plain Koronet pizza is terrific. Even the joint across the street from me, Columbus Pizza, is goddamned good.
If you ever leave hipsterville and make it uptown, definitely check these places out.
MR
St. Marks Pizza. That’s it. Third Ave. just north of St. Marks Place.
Doesn’t Pizza Hut make a Big New Yorker??
[sub]I’m so ashamed I did that…
Ashamed you should be.
St. Mark’s Pizza is ok, but definitely not on the level of Two Boots or Koronet.
Blech on Two Boots! Gimmicky overloaded slices with not enough cheese! 
Actually, since I immediatly thought of St Marks as my fav place, I forgot to mention Grimaldi’s in Brooklyn. Grimaldi's in Brooklyn, NY 11201 | Citysearch
Now that’s the stuff.
The last time I was at St. Marks, picking up a quick slice before a night of carousing at Scratcher’s, I couldn’t tell the cheese from the oil. 
Better luck next time, I guess.
Grimaldi’s looks promising, though. Thanks.
I’m with Fretburner, Two Boots is ok for what it is, and it’s more like Pizza Gimmick Food than actual pizza. Oriental chicken with cashews and garlic in white sauce on a pizza crust is darn good, but it’s not really pizza.
In the city, I like John’s on Bleecker Street, and in the East Village, I think Nino’s on Avenue A slightly beats out St. Mark’s. When I lived in that area, Nino’s was very popular with both native New Yorkers and various guests I had from out of town.
The best of the Ray’s, and I confess I don’t know if it’s Ray’s Famous Original, or Original Famous Ray’s, or Grandmaster Famous Ray and the Furious Five or what have you, but it’s the one on 6th Avenue and 11th Street. You will, however, go into some sort of dairy shock from the vast amounts of cheese, so have a medic standing by.
In Brooklyn, our local place is pretty good, one of the many Ray’s, on Fulton Street in Fort Greene.
Damn. Guess I heven’t spent enough time down in the city… Seems like everywhere I go all I see are those stinkin’ Sparro’s or whatever the hell it is. Greasy expensive crap, that is.
Koronet Pizza:[ul][li]1 Food protection certificate not held by supervisor of food operations.[]2 Canned food product observed swollen, leaking, rusted, or severely dented.[]3 Vermin or other live animal present in food storage, preparation or service area[/ul]Columbus Pizza:[ul][]1 Cold food held above 45°F (smoked fish above 38°F) except during necessary preparation.[/li][]2 Vermin or other live animal present in food storage, preparation or service area.[/ul]Look, Maeglin, I thought you had good taste…
Maeglin:
I use to live on 106 and Columbus, I went to those places and wasn’t really impressed by any of those places. I would give them a satisfactory at best.
Oh, and Hip is a state of mind, not a place. 
Seriously? How long ago? And you only find V&T to be satisfactory? I confess I’m pretty shocked.
I looked 'em up last week, so it’s no surprise. Hell, I even posted my shock that one of my favorite neighborhood places is cross-contaminated. But those who live in NYC build up certain, er, resistances.
MR
A word of advice from a New York native who moved out in 1986:
With VERY rare exceptions, there is no longer any quality pizza in Manhattan. The best pizza is usually to be found in small, local, family-owned joints, and pizza parlors like that are a dying breed in Manhattan. Real estate is just too expensive. Hence, increasingly, the pizza places you see in Manhattan are part of well-financed chains.
Visit an assortment of local joints in any heavily Italian neighborhood in Queens, Brooklyn or the Bronx. You’ll find a plethora of great pizzerias, each with its own unique qualities.
Excellent:
V&T
John’s on Bleecker St.
Carmine’s & Sal’s at Bway and 102.
Grimaldi’s
Sadly, Ray’s on 6th Ave & 11th is gone. Oh, it’s physically still there, but the pizza they serve is not the sublime stuff you may remember. Don’t know if it changed ownership or what but it went downhill sometime in the late '90’s.
I agree with those who say that in general pizza has gone downhill in NYC. When I was a kid, the corner pizza store was run by Italians who sang Italian songs while they twirled pizza over their heads. This is a vanishing breed.
The one at NYU’s Campus Eatery. Yum.
Thats easy
What’s the best pizza in NYC?
Why its a pizza eaten…surrounded by NYC
Sorta lies in the same realm of how good hot dogs taste with a Baseball field surrounding them.
How many times do I have to tell you people-Religious threads belong in Great Debates!
I must not be paying enough attention…I haven’t noticed the island flooded by Pizza Huts and Dominos and Godfathers and whatever. I doubt if Mnahattanites would put up with that sort of crap in their neighborhoods. Or maybe it IS happening, and I’m not caring, because I ignore/avoid those joints like the plague.
…I always liked Ben’s of SoHo, down on the corner of Thompson and Spring Streets. Tontonno’s, in Coney Island, is great for a brick-oven pie with fresh mozzerella and sausage (and didn’t they expand to a new location on the Upper East Side of Manhattan?), but Ben’s for the classic slice.