Well attestedNamed from the place
New York-style pizza
noun · first attested 20th century
The famous it-is-the-water explanation has never actually been demonstrated.
A wide, thin-crusted pizza sold by the slice and eaten folded.
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New York City
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New York-style pizza
Lombardi's in Manhattan, traditionally credited as the country's first pizzeria, opened in 1905, and the coal-oven style spread outward from lower Manhattan. New Yorkers credit the city's tap water for the crust, a claim nobody has managed to show; oven temperature and flour do far more of the work.
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