NYC's Five Worst Pizza Slices

Rocket Joe's is "a normally great pizzeria"? Are you a lunatic?

The best thing to say about Rocket Joe's is that it's open late. 

"Pineapple should never be found on a pie for any reason."

Robert, oh, Robert. How can you say this? How many times have you reviewed new and different kinds of foods, with unique ingredients, and ignore the wonders of pineapple on pizza. Were you dropped on your head as a child on a Dole pineapple can or something like that? Did you see some film where hand grenades were called pineapples and haven't gotten over it? Perhaps it gave you PTSD (Pineapple-traumatic stress disorder)?

I often (as in almost always) have pineapple on my pizzas, often a 6 meats w/ pineapple one (and sometimes with green peppers too). But even if limited to 2 items, it's often pineapple w/ bacon, sausage, or ham.

Oddly enough, the first time I had pineapple on a pizza was about 35 years ago (with ham) in Nova Scotia, years before it showed up in my Central NY town, and maybe even before NYC (you'd know better than I). 

Not knowing the place mentioned above, I can't speak to how bad their slices are, but to demean the whole pineapple on pizza industry because of  some bad places is not fair.

And personally, I can't understand why anyone would want to ruin pizza with ANY kind of fish, let alone anchovies...

Head to New Haven!

Boston Pizza in Astoria should have been on this list

Famous Rays at 465 Sixth is quite good for a regular slice or a pepperoni.  I would steer clear of a vegetable slice anywhere.. ech

It has really reached the point where everything I read suggests some tool who grew up somewhere else and now thinks he's a New Yorker. The pizza here has mostly sucked forever, and anyone trying to reduce that to 5 notably bad places should move to Kansas.

Thanks Robert for taking one......er should I say five for the team.

If you already dislike Hawaiian how could you single out someone for having it? Pretty common  slice.

Most pizza in NYC sucks. Great pizza in NYC is almost as big as a fallacy as great tasting tap water in NYC.

You should try the vegetable sicilian at Ben's Famous in Soho.  Undigestibly dense, greasy dough bout 3 inches thick, covered in terrible mozzarella and piled high with the most vile, soggy, slimy chunks of fresh-from-the-can broccoli and mushrooms and lots of other things that suck.

First off, pineapple & ham/Canadian bacon on pizza is amazing. Second, Anna Maria's has some kick-ass pizza.  Maybe your palette is suffering from mediocrity. Also, why aren't Famiglia & Papa John's on the list?

I am dubious that any of these places would crack the top 20 of terrible pizza places on the Upper East Side. The Totonno's branch on 2nd avenue used to be an island of deliciousness in a sea of mediocrity; but now that it's gone, there isn't a good pie to be had south of Patsy's.

Everything at Fratelli Brick Oven pizza on Grand (off Bedford) is Williamsburg's worst slice. Dude who owns it gave up caring like two years ago, and he bakes his depression into every pie.