Best Pizza in New York City

The New York pizza debate is one of America's great culinary arguments, pitting the thin, foldable, large-slice New York-style pizza — with its characteristic crispy edge and chewy centre — against the resurgent Neapolitan style, the Sicilian thick-crust square, and the deep-dish heresy. The answer, of course, is that all four formats can be exceptional, and New York has world-class examples of each.

Di Fara in Midwood, Brooklyn — operated by the legendary Domenico DeMarco until his recent passing — remains a pilgrimage site. Lucali in Carroll Gardens has arguably the city's finest Neapolitan-influenced pies, with hour-long queues to prove it. John's of Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village offers coal-oven pizza with decades of institutional memory. Prince Street Pizza in Nolita has made Sicilian slices famous beyond New York. And Una Pizza Napoletana remains the gold standard for certified Neapolitan in Manhattan.