New York Pizza

This place is really good as they make a proper NY pizza. The slices are huge and really stay true to the NY style. They have awesome daily lunch specials. The staff there are really nice and it's just great to have a local Tucson spot that serves good pizza. Def recommend this place especially for individual pizza slices that's affordable and tastes good.

It's been around for 49 years, but I just recently heard of it.It's your basic old school pizza shop that has a certain charm to it. The lobby has video games and pinball and the space is wide open. Unfortunately, the pizza only gets 3 stars but I'd give it 4 stars for everything else.First, the good. It's not a fancy place by any means, but it's clean, lots of seating, easy parking, and really friendly staff. I got a slice with 2 toppings and a soda for $8.39 which is reasonable.Unfortunately, the pizza is hit and miss. The cheese and sauce are uninspiring. The cheese didn't have any kind of pull to it and kind of separates on itself. I got sausage and pepperoni and the sausage is little crumbles which I love. The toppings really helped make the slice better. I found when I got to the edges/crust you could really taste the difference without toppings, tho.Would I go there again? If I were in the area and wanted a cheap lunch I think I would. Would I drive out of my way to go there? Probably not.

Well, well, well, I guess I had the spoiled urban palette for proper N.Y. Style pizza, maybe having come from San Diego after almost 30 years, to this Tucson food desert. Up the hill from me was Bronx Pizza, established 1997. Back when they used to use actual NYC tap water for their dough...Fast forward to month six of living on the East Side of Tucson.I had tired of the crappy, soulless chain, doughy drivel of the likes of MOD Pizza, Serial Grillers, Papa Murphy's, Pizza (H)Butt, etc. That is sadly all that I can get within a 15 minute drive out here on the perimeters.So, I found this spot on some Reddit forum, for good New York style pizza in Tucson and more or less east. The majority of members had voted for Empire Pizza, Upper Crust, Time Market, et al. But this odd east side spot for "NY Pizza" came up in a couple mentions. So my mom and I tried it out today.This was by far the WORST PIZZA I have tasted or experienced since I was in Fresno for work training in the summer of 2008. I found that place also on the internets, and in a desert too, but it was also in California, and they used freakin' CANNED MUSHROOMS on my pizza! I cried and I thought of growing up poor in Michigan with canned mushrooms. And I thought of school lunch pizzas in grade school, and how that pizza was not much better. So, who the hell stoops to a cost-cutting/taste killing low of putting CANNED MUSHROOMS ON A PIZZA??? (Inquiring minds and taste buds want to know..)We got a half pepperoni pizza and other half "mushrooms" and pepperoni.We were served a greasy, soggy, undercooked piece of shite, complete with what tasted like processed pre-grated cheese and a super bland (most likely from a can) red sauce, and add the horror of CANNED MUSHROOMS!!! I wanted to throw the goddamned thing out the car window on the way home.To add, even cooking it another five minutes under the broiler, while sopping up the grease with several paper towels, and picking off the slimy, nasty CANNED MUSHROOMS (!!!) - even then, We, I, and the the pizza gods up in the sky, could not resurrect this sad sad thing called a New York Pizza. Bronx Pizza, where are you my love??? :'(

Had lunch today. Meatball sub and a slice with 2 beers 23$. Guys are all so nice. Food is great sauce has a great taste. Clean environment. It's cool cause people been coming here for year. I've been coming 30+ years. New owners made some changes and I think it's great. $5.50 slice and soda everyday.

Though this pizza joint has been here longer than I've been in Tucson (since the '70's), I only learned about it a few weeks ago from my son. I've been to New York City a few times, and, while I am no NY expert, this pizza joint closely resembles some of the places I have visited. Not a fancy restaurant by any stretch, but great service and great pizza. That's all you really need. Lots of toppings to choose from, great salads, and a nice beer selection.

The salad portion for the prise was nice, but the pizza itself didn't tasted more special than frozen pizza. The staff were very polite while playing my order on phone and when picking it up. The ambience was okay, nothing special about it.

Ambiance is great. The place was bought by new owners and the interior looks great. Kinda sad the trophy wall is gone. If you know you know. Place is a local staple in my opinion. The service is outstanding. There's a new vibe and I'm digging it. The crust is different and I'm all about that crunch!!! Come try it out you won't be disappointed!!! 8.6/10. Solid review!

One of our go to places for lunch, until they started charging for using a credit card.

Great spot for pizza, same as when I used to go there 30 years ago as a child. Thanks for keeping the same simple vibe and great pizza!

We decided to try New York Pizza again after new owners took it over. We ordered a sausage and pepperoni medium size. Please go somewhere else and give yourself a brake! It was the worst pizza I have ever had in my life. Horrible cardboard with hardly any cheese and the other crap they put on it was just terrible. Go anywhere else!