It is an unusual but not totally uninteresting project created by journalist Liam Quigley in 2014. Called “NYC Slice”, or “the (pizza) slices of NYC”, the project lists all the pizzas gobbled up by Quigley.
No less than 464 shares have been ordered by the journalist since 2014. Everything is illustrated by graphs and maps, to be found on its website. Which allows him to note that in eight years, the average price of a share has increased by about fifty cents, from 2.52 dollars to 3 dollars. A calculation that does not take into account the famous one-dollar pizza slices, which obviously have not seen their price change.
“The most expensive slice was a $6.53 slice of pepperoni pizza, sold by Artichoke Basille’s Pizza in Times Square, and it was okay.”, notes the journalist. “I have not rated the shares to avoid controversy and kickbacks. But what I noticed was the decline in the amount of sauce on the slices. I’m sure this is an economic measure, but the overall quality of the average share in the city has definitely suffered”, he specifies as an expert.
If you’re heading to the Big Apple anytime soon, you can follow the NYC Slice project on Instagramor go to these addresses which Liam Quigley says are the best (although not a ranking):
- Margherita Pizza, 163-04 Jamaica Avenue, $3.75
- Ozone Pizzeria, 9615 Liberty Avenue, 3.00 $
- Ciro Pizza Cafe, 862 Hugenot Avenue, 2.50$
- Pizza D’Amore, 208 Beach 116th St, 2.50 $
- Sam’s Pizza, 232 W 231st Street, 3.00 $
- PG Pizza, 904 Morris Avenue, 2.75$
- Joe’s Pizza, 7 Carmine St, 4.00 $
- Bleecker Street Pizza, 69 7th Avenue South, 3.64 $
- Pizza Place, 4024 White Plains Road, 3.25 $
- Big John’s Pizza, 219-11 Jamaica Avenue, 2.75 $
- Mario’s Pizzeria, 224 Dekalb Avenue, 3.00 $
- Sunnyside Pizza, 4001 Queens Blvd, 3.50 $
- New Park Pizza, 156-71 Cross Bay Blvd, 3.25 $
