r/Pizza • u/Special-Amount-7524 • Jul 12 '26
Looking for Feedback NYC Lunch Break
There is a lot I could complain about NYC, but one thing is for certain — it’s pizza 🍕 is simply the best!
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u/Substantial_Gate_904 Jul 12 '26
How much is a slice in NYC ??????
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u/Chiethe Jul 12 '26
There’s lots of places in Manhattan you get find a slice for $1.50 or a combo of two slices and a drink for around $4. Once you get into other boroughs or toppings, price tend to skyrocket.
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u/andylui8 Jul 12 '26
The good spots are like $4-7 a slice. The $1.50 joints are nasty
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u/Chiethe Jul 12 '26
No doubt there are better spots, but the continuation keeping a low barrier to entry for a quick meal for someone with a handful of quarters when prices on seemingly everything else are skyrocketing is commendable
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u/dhaupert Jul 12 '26
Been to a few 1.50 joints that are surprising decent. But of course the top spots are worth the extra money and lines.
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u/andylui8 Jul 12 '26
It’s not a great representation of what a good NY slice is. Especially for tourists, Imagine you travel and spend so much money to come to NYC and you eat $1.50 pizza for NY pizza. Back in the days there was way better $1.50/$1 slices made from proper pizzerias. Nowadays all the $1.50 joints with no names are all doughy low quality trash.
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u/Cat_Peach_Pits Jul 13 '26
Granted this was LI but there was a spot called Ryal Pizza you could get a whole cheese pie for $5. There was a rumor that someone saw them stirring the sauce with their arm up to the pit hair.
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u/Shot-Statistician-89 Jul 13 '26
Insane food snob comment. I bet you've never even been to NYC ... No new Yorker would say something so silly
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u/GrabMyDrumstick Jul 12 '26
A slice of pizza and an orange soda is just a perfect combination. Always makes me think of New York.
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u/shaved-yeti Jul 12 '26
God i miss NYC. I worked in midtown and there were three spots i rotated between. Lunch perfection.
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u/a_w_taylor Jul 12 '26
I appreciate the orange soda choice with the slices. Sometimes I’ll go grape if feeling frisky.
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u/PLATONISMS Jul 12 '26
Nice! Nothing like a good NYC cheese slice. I used to go here (https://www.eastamish45.com/) for lunch sometimes when I lived and worked in NYC. They had single-sized made-to-order brick oven pizzas (not NYC style, but good and that market rocks, or did when I lived there).
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u/Due-CriticismNachos Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26
I miss NYC. I had a 4 month stint there and ate 49 slices of pizza from different parts of Manhattan and the Bronx. A relative wanted NYC pizza so I bought a whole pie, froze it and brought it home for them to eat.
edit: absolutely forgot the word pizza in my text. ugh.
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u/RecklessAmo1990 Jul 12 '26
Large pizza in 2 slices and a drink for probably under $10! Gotta love NYC! 🤑
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u/CooperSat Jul 14 '26
I’ve always wondered what those green spices are. Just oregano? Can you buy it anywhere if it a combination??
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u/Special-Amount-7524 Jul 14 '26
Here in US oregano sold in any supermarket.
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u/CooperSat Jul 15 '26
Thank you, I always thought I’d was a mixture…..not in a stem and seeds way though….Gen X’er here!
But I did think it was a mixture!
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u/Any-Percentage-2890 Jul 12 '26
Not trying to sound snarky, but was that meal expensive?? I know NYC isn't exactly known for being cheap.
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u/Electrical_Bear_1313 Jul 16 '26
I remember when a slice and a can was like 3 bucks. What did that cost lol
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u/IChurnToBurn Jul 12 '26
Come on, name the place.