Best Pizzeria in New York · New York, NY
John's of Bleecker Street has been baking coal-fired, brick-oven pizza in Greenwich Village since 1929, when Italian immigrant Giovanni "John" Sasso dismantled his original oven and rebuilt it at 278 Bleecker Street. It's one of the last of New York's original coal-oven pizzerias and helped define the city's thin-crust tomato pie.
The rules are famous and unbending: whole pies only, never by the slice, blistered in an 850° coal-fired oven, eaten in wooden booths carved with decades of initials. Nearly a century on, it's still turning out the same char-edged pies.
That old-school constancy is exactly what the 2026 Centurion Award for New York recognizes.
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Greenwich Village pizzeria opened in 1929, still baking whole pies in its original coal-fired brick oven. No slices, and the regulars like it that way.
Yes — John's of Bleecker Street is the 2026 Centurion Award winner for Best Pizzeria in New York, a verified, criteria-based award. Named best pizzeria in New York for 2026 for nearly a century of coal-fired pies from the original Bleecker Street oven, with carved-up wooden booths to prove it.
John's of Bleecker Street is in New York, NY.
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