As of 2025, the average NYC pizza slice price has risen to $3.81, officially outpacing the $3 subway fare and ending the decades-old ‘pizza principle’ in New York City.
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Starting in 2014, I logged every slice of pizza I ate in New York City on the Instagram account NYC Slice. The results shown below are collected from 464 slices. Over an eight-year period the average price of a plain slice increased from $2.52 to $3.00. This calculation excludes dollar slices.
The most expensive was a $6.53 pepperoni slice at Artichoke Basille’s Pizza’s Times Square location, and it was fine. I did not rate the slices to avoid controversy and bribes. The biggest thing I have noticed is the decline in the amount of sauce put on slices. I’m sure this is a cost-saving measure, but the overall quality of your average slice in the city has definitely suffered. However, in no particular order, these are some of the better slices in the city.
- Margherita Pizza, 163-04 Jamaica Avenue, $3.75 (up from $3.00 in 2014)
- Ozone Pizzeria, 9615 Liberty Avenue, $3.00
- Ciro Pizza Cafe, 862 Hugenot Avenue, $2.50
- Pizza D’Amore, 208 Beach 116th St, $2.50
- Sam’s Pizza, 232 W 231st Street, $3.00
- PG Pizza, 904 Morris Avenue, $2.75
- Joe’s Pizza, 7 Carmine St, $4.00 (up from $2.75 in 2014)
- Bleecker Street Pizza, 69 7th Avenue South, $3.64 (up from $2.75 in 2014)
- Pizza Place, 4024 White Plains Road, $3.25
- Big John’s Pizza, 219-11 Jamaica Avenue, $2.75
- Mario’s Pizzeria, 224 Dekalb Avenue, $3.00
- Sunnyside Pizza, 4001 Queens Blvd, $3.50 (up from $2.50 in 2014)
- New Park Pizza, 156-71 Cross Bay Blvd, $3.25 (up from $2.75 in 2014)
Spent on plain slices: $955.09
Spent on dollar slices: $35.09
Spent on Pepperoni slices: $202.28
Spent on other slices: $51.76
Total spent on slices: $1244.22
- Bloomberg CityLab — Mapping the Death of NYC’s Cheap Slice
- NBC New York — This Guy Tracked the Average Cost of an NYC Pizza Slice for 8 Years. Here’s What He Found
- Slate — The Man Who Spent $1,244.22 on 464 Slices of New York Pizza Explains What He Learned
- Time Out New York — This New Yorker tracked the price of NYC pizza slices for eight years and the results are shocking
- amNewYork — New Yorker creates map of the 464 pizza slices he ate over 8 years in NYC (and Jersey)
- Boing Boing — New Yorker documents every pizza slice he’s eaten for past nine years, shares hard data
- FlowingData — Tracking hundreds of pizza slices
- Queens Daily Eagle — After eating nearly 500 slices, Brooklyn man says Queens has best pizza
- PMQ Pizza Magazine — This New Yorker Logged Eight Years of Pizza Slices and Prices
- Secret NYC — The Cost Of A NYC Pizza Slice Has Jumped 19% Over The Last 8 Years
- NBC New York — Sign of the Times: No More $1 Slices of Pizza at Two Bros in NYC
Originally published January 10th, 2023.
The data used to create the map can be viewed here.
Map created with carto.
Logo design by Anna Pelavin.
