Pizza in New York

763 restaurants in New York list pizza on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Pizza Daa Roma & Bagel at $6.50, listed as Burrata Basil Pizza. The typical price across town is $17.95, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $10.00 at I Love NY Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $3.50 apart, which is 54% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 40 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 0 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track pizza in 1058 other areas and compare them all on pizza across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so New York is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 73 of the 1058. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.49 at Bellacino's Pizza & Grinders in Troy, MI, and the highest best price is $18.00 in Tacoma, WA. The nearest area with it is Maspeth, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $10.50.

Where is the cheapest pizza in New York? Pizza Daa Roma & Bagel, at $6.50 on 621 2nd Ave. The same dish reaches $10.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.50.

What should pizza cost here? About $17.95 is the typical price across the 763 kitchens in New York that list it. Of the ones listed above, 40 are more than a dollar below that and 0 are more than a dollar above, so the typical price is a middle rather than a floor.

Is it cheaper nearby? The nearest area we track it in is Maspeth, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $10.50. That is $4.00 more than the best price here.

Why do the prices differ so much? We compare what each menu calls the same dish, and menus are not identical: portion, cut, sides and the kind of room you are sitting in all ride on the price, and none of that shows up in a number. Part portions and half sizes are kept out of this comparison, and a chain charging the same at several addresses is counted once, so the spread above is between genuinely different kitchens rather than the same one repeated.