New York-Style Slice

The big, thin, foldable wedge sold by the slice all over the city, here a plain and a pepperoni from New Park Pizza in Howard Beach, Queens, in 2021. A New York slice is cut from a wide pie of hand-tossed dough with a crisp but bendable base, a thin layer of sauce and low-moisture mozzarella, and it is meant to be folded lengthwise and eaten standing up. Gennaro Lombardi's Manhattan shop, which became a pizzeria in 1905, is usually named as the city's first.