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" Everyone loves a good, clickable slideshow. Generally the great ones take a great deal of effort on the part of the producers, and we don&amp;#039;t deny that this one did, too. And we admit that value of ranking food will inevitably be directly proportional to how the pleasure centers of the ranker align with the pleasing elements of the ranked. (We unabashedly endorse all of our various efforts.) But when it comes to pizza, let&amp;#039;s not kid ourselves. We&amp;#039;re calling shenanigans on this one:   3. New York City While you can&amp;#039;t walk a few blocks in NYC without passing a pizzeria, many are tourist-trap knockoffs. Let the Slice of Brooklyn Pizza tour lead the way: you can dodge the lines at legendary Grimaldi&amp;#039;s near the Brooklyn Bridge, and try a Sicilian-style in Bensonhurst, then stick around post-tour for pies at Roberta&amp;#039;s. Back across the bridge, Adrienne&amp;#039;s Pizza Bar in Lower Manhattan gets raves for its square thin crust. Luckily, plenty of NYC pizzerias stay open late, which blends nicely with the city&amp;#039;s high rankings for cocktail lounges, live music, and wild weekends. At left, Lombardi&amp;#039;s Pizza, established in 1897 in New York.   It just sounds like this person doesn&amp;#039;t realize that most places in New York are in fact not that. Searching &amp;quot;pizza&amp;quot; with a &amp;quot;New York, NY&amp;quot; location on Yelp.com yields 4,054 pages of results alone, while the same search for &amp;quot;Chicago, IL&amp;quot; yields a almost a quarter of the results (make the &amp;quot;quality over quantity&amp;quot; claims all you want, but a 2,900-restaurant advantage is nothing to scoff at). One intrepid man once attempted to try a slice at every single pizzeria in Manhattan. Of all the various immigrant populations to have funneled into New York over the last 400 years, if there is one quintessential dish that&amp;#039;s endured, it&amp;#039;s the standard, New York-style pizza. World War II veterans craved it when they returned from service. It&amp;#039;s recession-proof. And while we love Chicago&amp;#039;s deep-dish pizza for its girth and filling quality, the fact that you can&amp;#039;t eat it with your hands without playing the part of a fool is the reason it&amp;#039;s widely known as &amp;quot;Chicago-style&amp;quot; pizza and not just &amp;quot;pizza.&amp;quot; We sympathize (we do!), but any &amp;quot;best pizza cities&amp;quot; ranking has to post New York in the top eight slots, Chicago at number 9, and Los Angeles, Boston, or the year&amp;#039;s wild card bringing up the rear. At least MarketWatch mentioned Burt&amp;#039;s, which is legendary:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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