A half plain–half sausage pizza from Johnny's Pizzeria in Mount Vernon, New York. [Photographs: Adam Kuban] Johnny's Pizzeria 30 West Lincoln Avenue, Mount Vernon NY 10550 (Rochelle Terr./N 7th Ave.; map); 914-668-1957 Pizza style: A cross between bar pizza and New York–style Oven type: Gas The skinny: Named No. 1 pizza in the world by famous pizza-hacker Jeff Varasano. We think it's very good, but not quite top of the pops During our head-to-head comparison of Frank Pepe's Yonkers and the original FP in New Haven, Connecticut, last week, we kinda sorta got lost (no, not in Yonkers). Luckily,... More

Many New York–area pizza lovers may be headed to the shore this holiday weekend, to Connecticut or Rhode Island or Massachusetts—the northern half of what I called the Pizza Belt in my book Pizza: A Slice of Heaven. If you find yourself hungry, stuck in traffic or both, console yourself with a slice or pizza or two at any of the following places. More