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New York City needs pizza the same way a plant needs sunlight or a subway needs a conductor. In other words, it’s important - and that’s why we spent several months looking for the best pizza in the city. Throughout our research, we consumed several hundred slices and many dozens of pies, and, at one point or another, most of us had thoughts like “That’s enough” and “I’d like to never eat pizza again.” After that, we went through grueling rounds of discussion, deliberation, and voting. And that’s how we ended up here: with a definitive list of the top 20 pizza places in NYC, ranked.

Before you get into this top 20, however, you should know that it only applies to the individual pizzas - it’s not a ranking of the restaurants on the whole (if you want to know how we feel about those, you can refer to their ratings). Now that we’ve provided this disclaimer, go read about (and eat) some incredible pizza.