Philly and New Haven are basically the only 2 other cities that have solid “pizza cultures”. If you go to Baltimore, DC, or Boston you can’t get anything close to an NY slice without traveling significantly out of your way. Even then, the ubiquity of the NYC slice shop can’t be matched

You'd be surprised. My absolute favorite pizza in the entire world is from a small family owned pizza place in the suburbs of Philly.

This spot.

https://g.co/kgs/MYr2E9

In Philly my favorite is

https://g.co/kgs/1RkGda

Also the Jersey shore has a ton of spots.

Yeah an important clarification is New York is really only dominant in slice shops. Great restaurant pizza exists almost everywhere now.

I’ll have to check out your Philly recs.

Well, and I can't personally confirm this, they say NYC water is somehow better for making the dough in this style of pizza.

That's a myth.

There's a pretty good NYC style pizza place in Maui and it tastes exactly the same.

Well, NYC got the best water quality :)