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New York Today: Chicago Pizza vs. the New York Slice
By JONATHAN WOLFE NOV. 16, 2017

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s press secretary tweeted on Saturday that a Chicago pizzeria was better than any other pizza out there — including New York.

Five days later, he’s still wrong.

But, then again, our pizza preferences could be, too. So we turned to our readers — New Yorkers, transplants and those who live outside of New York City — to tell us how our slices stack up to pizza elsewhere.

Here is what a few pizza lovers had to say:

Is Chicago’s pizza better than New York’s?

“I’ve lived in Chicago, which I loathe, and near Battery Park in New York City, which is grotesquely noisy and overpriced. I’m 69 and I’ve eaten a lot of pizza. A Chicago pizzeria is better than a New York City pizzeria.”

— David Beschauer, 69, Radford, Va.

“Deep-dish pizza is not pizza. It’s good and I love it, but it’s more like a savory pie.”

— Catherine Lee, 28, Cobble Hill

“Chicago Pizza is a casserole. New York Pizza is pizza, with the best in Brooklyn. And, please, no pineapple.”

“The one glaring problem with a Chicago pizza slice is not so much the taste, but that it is so thick that you cannot fold it. How in the world can you walk with a Coke in one hand and a slice in the other and eat it unless it is folded? Eating an unfolded slice is like eating a floor tile.”

— Billy Ford, 68, Cornwall, N.Y.

“New York pizza is ephemeral. Chicago pizza is interminable. Balance in the pizza-verse can only be achieved by the existence of both.”

— Bradley Parker, 39, Harlem

Is there more to New York pizza than the taste?

“It’s one of the ultimate grab-and-go foods. It can be prepared quickly, served in seconds, eaten on the spot, or given the ‘Flatbush fold’ and enjoyed on the move.”

— Tim Cartier, 58, Garland, Tex.

”It’s always cheap, thin, greasy, and just hits the spot!”

Pam Steele Tabbaa, 68, Ann Arbor, Mich.

“I would take a New York City slice, served piping hot out of the oven onto a generic white paper plate as I walk around the city, over any other slice anywhere in the world. It’s not just the pizza, it’s the spirit of the city embedded in it that makes all the difference. We all have our preferences. And for me, New York is the place for pizza, and for life.”

— Christa Avampato, 41, Upper West Side

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/nyregion/new-york-today-chicago-pizza-vs-the-new-york-slice.html?