I was in New York a couple of weeks ago and availed myself of .99 and $1.99 slices non-stop. And still lost weight!

Pizza: good for you.

I've been to Di Fara three times, and I agree. It's awesome. If you're willing to wait 1-2 hours for pizza, it's really worth it.

But then again, if waiting in line for 2 hours seems insane, I wouldn't recommend it.

Where the hell was the 99-cent pizza when I lived in New York?!?

I can think of at least two bars in Brooklyn that'll give you a free pizza just for ordering a pint. Sometimes it only has to be good enough.

I used to love the 99 cent slice pizza in downtown Vancouver BC - after a night going out with friends to bars it was always fun!

The Swedish hospital cafeteria has $2.00 slices and I eat them at least once a week. Good quality considering it's "cafeteria" food.
Sometimes I just need food in my belly.

I rarely miss Brooklyn but DiFara is the best pizza I've ever eaten. And I've eaten pizza in Italy. Giuseppe grinds the cheese fresh for every pie by hand. But you better have at least an hour because you can't rush an artist. Worth the bike ride to Inwood! 99 cent slices? You get what you pay for.

Does DC still do the "jumbo" slices wackiness?

$0.99 slice?

Try $11 for a 20 cut tray, plus a $.50 short beer. Or $14 for an 8 cut white pizza, which is basically God's Grilled Cheese.

And this is in the self-proclaimed Pizza Capital of the World, too...Old Forge, Pennsylvania.

Yes, I live in Boston now. And yes, I make the five hour drive about once a month for the pizza.

I'm thinking Denman. As I recall they were maybe $1.99 Cdn a couple years back.

I'm so sick of hearing about how great the pizza is in New York. It's called overexposure and it's what happens when a meme gets repeated too often.

I live in New York and drop by the 2 Bros. on St. Marks every now and then for lunch (a $2 lunch!) and occasionally after bar hopping in the EVille. It's not the best pizza, certainly, but it stands up to your run-of-the-mill $2.75 slice pretty well. It's a bit smaller, and pretty thin, but still comparatively worth more than the 1/3 price ratio.

@8 - who the fuck is Giuseppe?

If you are in NYC and can't find a great slice loaded with toppings for 2-3 bucks then you are not looking hard enough. What kind of moron waits an hour for a 5 dollar slice of pizza?

I'm sitting at Talarico's in West Seattle. Their happy hour slice is $4, but it's an eighth of a 36" pie. Easily equal to three standard slices.

Still - now I feel like I'm being ripped off.

Talarico's slices are huge and somewhat justified on price (I do wish they were cheaper so I could get more toppings), but Zeek's "Now With More Crust" are super overpriced and they have to have taken a hit in this economy.... give me a 99 cent slice and I am all over it!

@15 is spot on. We're not talking fine dining here, it's pizza... not Lobster Thermidor. Pizza places are as ubiquitous as Chinese take-out.

Besides, Chicago pizza beats NY. New York is just a big, floppy, greasy slice. A monkey could make a decent NY pizza. There's nothing special there other than what people have been told to think is supposed to be special.

You know the saying about pizza and sex.

under 30 minutes or it's free?

Costco. $2.99 for a combo slice, and an easy reach for that gallon jar o' artichoke hearts to go on it. No 5-hour plane ride with maybe a shoe-licking, skin-shedding golden retriever lying on your feet. Just sayin'.

Pleasure Island, Downtown Disney in Orlando had/might still have a little pizza stand that catered to the drunk disney guests. I tried one even though I was very reluctant to. Why, because the thing cost $6 and was the size of my out stretched hand. Oh, and the toppings were basic. Scheiße, the thing should have cost $2 like a cheap tombstone or whatever one finds in the grocery store.

@18 and @21: you wait because it's not just any slice of pizza, it's a slice made with love and pride by an uncompromising and passionate lover of food. Saying pizza places are as ubiquitous as Chinese take-out completely misses the point-- because mediocrity is prevalent, everyone should just accept it and shovel it into their gullets because it's a bargain? That line of reasoning doesn't seem at all problematic to you?

DiFara's is labor of love, one old immigrant Italian man who makes every single pie, who imports most of his ingredients from Italy because he believes they're the best available, grows his own herbs, and hand grates his cheese to order-- all because he wants to share what he believes is the best possible slice with his neighbors and customers. A $5 slice is kind of pricey, but it's a small luxury, and one that I've waited in line many times for and never regretted.

1) I is a NYer
2) Pizza here is mostly THE WORST
3) 2 is true because the bad places outnumber the good by unfathomable numbers
4) Di Fara is always "worth it" (Side note: WHO THE HELL WOULD WAIT THAT LONG FOR ONE SLICE, GET A WHOLE PIZZA)
5) @26 is why Di Fara is always worth it, any douche that goes there will fall in love!
6) This will invalidate me to many of you but after a huge pizza tour of all 5 boroughs, I like Lombardis the best.

When I'm hungry, any pizza is delicious. Unless it has dead fish on it.