By FoodDiscovery Editorial · Updated July 26, 2026 · Prices verified July 2026
The slice is New York's true civic institution: folded, eaten standing, judged instantly. Everyone in this city has a slice opinion and most of them are wrong, which is why we ranked it.
Seven shops made the cut, from the Broadway giant with twenty-one thousand reviews to a Brooklyn counter that has not changed its ways in decades. Where we have verified the menu ourselves, the prices are current, and yes, a proper cheese slice under five dollars still exists in Manhattan.
Times Square · 1435 Broadway · 4.5★ (21,526 reviews)
Order this: A plain slice, folded, eaten at the counter. Do not overthink an institution.
The Greenwich Village original's Broadway outpost, and the busiest argument-ender in New York pizza. A 4.5 across twenty-one thousand reviews for a slice that never chased trends: proper char, proper fold, gone in four bites. When people say "a New York slice," this is the picture in their head.
Nolita · 27 Prince St · 4.4★ (8,493 reviews)
Order this: The Spicy Spring: the pepperoni square with the little cups of chili oil.
The pepperoni square that launched a million photos, with crisped cups of pepperoni pooling spicy oil on a Sicilian base. The line down Prince Street is real and moves faster than it looks. One square is a meal; order two anyway.
Greenwich Village · 111 MacDougal St · 4.4★ (1,924 reviews)
Order this: The artichoke slice, which eats like a spinach-artichoke dip won a fight with a pizza.
The heaviest slice in New York and proud of it. The signature artichoke slice is creamy, absurd, and exactly right at midnight in the Village. Not the slice you eat every day; absolutely the slice you remember.
Midtown, off Fifth · 2 E 33rd St · 4.2★ (4,144 reviews)
Order this: The Sicilian red slice at lunch rush, when turnover keeps every pie fresh.
The midtown lunch-line workhorse a block from the Empire State Building, and the guide's proof that a real cheese slice under five dollars survives in Manhattan. The Sicilian tray moves so fast it never sits. Full menu with prices is on FoodDiscovery.
Sunset Park, Brooklyn · 4704 5th Ave, Sunset Park · 4.2★ (436 reviews)
Order this: The fresh mozzarella slice if the tray just came out; otherwise the plain.
A Sunset Park corner shop that has been run the same way since 1973: one oven, one family, no fuss. This is what neighborhood pizza tasted like before pizza had publicists. Worth the R train.
Sunset Park, Brooklyn · 849 4th Ave, Sunset Park · 4.1★ (206 reviews)
Order this: A grandma slice and a garlic knot chaser.
The under-the-radar pick: a small Fourth Avenue shop doing honest rounds and a grandma slice with real garlic conviction. The kind of place this list exists to surface before the lines find it.
Theater District · 736 7th Ave · 3.9★ (4,783 reviews)
Order this: A plain slice at 1am after a show, which is when Ray's makes the most sense.
Every New Yorker has a Ray's story, partly because half the city's pizzerias once claimed the name. The Theater District original-of-the-originals is here for one job: a hot, dependable slice at whatever hour the show lets out. History plus grease equals a fair number seven.
Prices shown were verified from posted menus in July 2026 and can change. Linked menus are built from each shop's own published menu.
Dollar-slice spots were left off on purpose: this list ranks slices worth crossing a street for, not just surviving on.
Yes. Little Italy Pizza's cheese slice was $4.74 as of July 2026, a block from the Empire State Building. Specialty and Sicilian slices there run $5.69 to $6.41.
Joe's Pizza at 1435 Broadway. It is the Broadway outpost of the Greenwich Village original and holds a 4.5 rating across more than 21,000 reviews.
For the Spicy Spring pepperoni square, yes. The line moves quickly and the square is substantial enough that one slice makes a lunch.
Photo: Dmitry Avdeev, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons · Restaurant photos via Google Places.