From the New York Times: Then there’s the bargain block: Ninth Avenue between 41st and 42nd Street. On the corner of 41st is the ivory-billed woodpecker of the pizza industry: a dollar-a-slice shop. Take good video, or your hometown pizza-guzzlers won’t believe you. In and Around Times Square [New York Times]... More

A reader emails us: My office is on 51st and Lex, and lately my coworkers and I have been missing the Pizza Truck. Has he changed locations or something? If you have any updates, please respond when you can (I think my boss has a craving for a Sicilian). Thank you so much! :-) I just tried calling both the numbers listed on the truck (pictured above). The first one is disconnected. The second, well, I'm not sure if I can make it out from the photo, but it seems to be a dead end, too. Anyone know what... More

Via Camphone003.jpg, blogged to Slice from the Flickr photostream of Slice Not Ray's Pizza. Corner of South Portland and Fulton in Fort Greene.... More

Via Camphone002.jpg, blogged to Slice from the Flickr photostream of Slice As soon as you begin the ascent of this staircase, the tantalizing smell of pizza assaults you. Where does it come from? Stay tuned. The mystery will be solved in minutes via camera phone.... More

It's been awhile since Slice has waded into the plaintive muck of Craigslist's Missed Connections section. So come with me, my loves, into the swamp of love that spawns "That's Amore." --The Management R Train - Tues. - Lower Manhattan - You with NY Post - m4w: you entered at one of the R's first stops in lower manhattan. Me: shaved head, white t-shirt, brown eyes, sitting near window. You: beautiful dark hair, long skirt, brown sandals, green(?) top, red toenail polish, incredible eyes, and the NY Post with silly Mel Gibson on the cover. we glanced at one another... More

Dear Slice: Help!!!! I'm originally from Huntington, New York, but have moved here to Rochester, New York. Do you know why the pizza here is so bad?? Is it the water?? Do you know of any place I can get an edible slice??? I miss the food down there. Do they mail pizza? --Matthew P. Dear Matthew: We're not all that familiar with Rochester, so we're going to open this one up to readers, as we often do with request for trusted pizza intel outside the NYC area. Readers? As for mail-order pizza, we did a post on this late... More

In yesterday's New York Times F.Y.I. column, the question was raised: Where was the first Ray's Pizza, and what's the story behind it? A. Why don’t you ask something simple, like what happened to Judge Crater? Some New York culinary questions (just who invented the black-and-white cookie is another) are destined to remain shrouded in mystery. The evolution of Ray’s Pizza resists an easy explanation.... The Ray’s question is also bristling with lawyers. Rosolino Mangano, of Famous Original Ray’s Pizza on Columbus Avenue near 83rd Street, went to court in the early 1990’s, registered that name and branched out with... More

In an earlier post, I complained about the wait at Di Fara, prompted by a recent thread on Chowhound. Slice's city editor, Seltzerboy, responded in the comments section of that post. But his words are too good to be buried there. Dig ... --Ed. WORDS BY SELTZERBOY .::. Di Fara is not the problem. It's the victim of a much larger problem. Too often, pizza is viewed as fast food. Di Fara is anything but fast food. In pretty much any restaurant, people are used to having their food delivered in less than 30 minutes. When someone says a restaurant... More

Not to be a pizza weblog that complains about something without offering a solution, we propose to spearhead a collection to buy Dom DeMarco a Take-A-Number system. Who's in? $550 for: Two-Digit Indicator with bar-segmented numbers and black housing Wireless Receiver with mounting bracket Electrical Adapter plug-in Set 1P 2 Remotes with Velcro D900 Ticket Dispenser, red/gray Counter Stand for Dispenser Take-A-Number Sign for Dispenser (English) 6 Rolls T90 Tickets (4,000 tickets per roll) Four thousand tickets per roll? That should get Dom through half a day. Take A Number 2-Digit Wireless Ready Set Kit [Take a Number, Inc.]... More

A Slice reader alerted us to a looooong thread on Chowhound about the interminable wait and dropped orders at Di Fara. It was started by this post: There is no way I will get my husband to go back to try again, but I would like to know if anyone else has had this kind of experience, in case I make a visit with other friends. Were we wrong to order a whole pie? Were we wrong to order mushrooms? I hadn't gotten this from previous postings, but is this another case of a grumpy owner who decides that he... More