Pizza Italia on Sedgwick Avenue somehow makes it into the comments on a David Bernstein post, and I wasn't even the one who mentioned it first. Verdict: they've stopped bothering using top-of-the-line ingredients, and they're not as good as they used to be. I blame Domino's and minimum-wage laws.

Steve's Pizza on 110 Trinity is my current favorite Manhattan slice, and my first time there was in 2003, so one can't even accuse me of childhood nostalgia in that respect.