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One thing I hate about gentrification is the quality of pizza took a big nose dive in NYC.
It's mainly due to skyrocketing rent but almost all transplants new to NYC that has lived here less than 3 years prefers sucky pizzas like Dominos, Papa Johns, and even Pizza Hut Express over nearby local pizza.
Can't blame them too because the quality of pizzas especially those made at Korean Delis and tourist heavy Pizzerias can't make a decent pie.
You have people on Yelpers say that NYC Pizza is overrated because they tried newly opened *fake* NYC Pizzeria. Especially those folks that order Pizza in Penn Station, you're gonna judge NYC area pizza from a train station, really?
Last edited by vision33r; 05-23-2014 at 10:06 AM..
I totally agree. $1 pizza lowered the bar for everybody.
There are a few places you can get a decent slice though. One is the Fat Sal's chain in and around midtown and of course the odd ball pizza joint in the hood or obscure location away from mainstream manhattan.
I ran into a NYC Style Pizza joint in Tijuana , Mexico of all places and it was BETTER than NYC. WHY ? They used 100% fresh ingredients. NYC places use low grade ingredients to save money.
Been paying roughly $5 for a decent slice in NYC...WAY TOO MUCH.
I ran into a NYC Style Pizza joint in Tijuana , Mexico of all places and it was BETTER than NYC. WHY ? They used 100% fresh ingredients. NYC places use low grade ingredients to save money.
It's Mexicans making the pizza anyway, so if they've been trained properly, I have no doubt the pizza in Mexico would be good. Cheaper to get quality ingredients.
If you go down Myrtle ave in Upper Ridgewood/Lower Glendale there is literally a pizzeria every block. No joke. Has to have the highest density of pizzerias in the country. Don't see them going anywhere anytime soon, even as new brick-oven pizza places are opening up.
I remember NY pizza places in the 1970s, when I was growing up in Queens. You had your basic slice, your Sicilian, your meatball sandwich, your Italian ice, your soda. Not much else. Good, basic food.
With the 1980s came the Rise of the Yuppie. In the 1980s they opened a Numero Uno pizza place near me. Fancy, yuppie pizza. Numero Uno was one of the first nails in the NY pizza coffin.
Eventually, even the basic Italian pizza places were either upgraded and/or run by Hispanics or Russian Jews or other new immigrant groups. I'm sorry, but I prefer Italian pizza made by Italian men, guys with names like Tony and Sal and Vito. And I'm not even Italian.
And yuppies don't go to pizza chains. I have no idea who does, but yuppies look down on them.
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