Best Neighborhoods in Manhattan for Pizza
A neighborhood-by-neighborhood breakdown of pizza quality and density across Manhattan, based on 668 pizzerias from Google Maps.
Written by: Charlie Murphy
Manhattan has 668 pizza places. But pizza in NYC is hyperlocal; the neighborhood you’re in shapes your options as much as any individual restaurant does. In this post, I take the same dataset from my earlier Manhattan pizza analysis and break it down by neighborhood: which ones have the most options, which have the highest average ratings, and which are worth making a trip for.
Pizza by neighborhood
Pizza options are not spread evenly across Manhattan. The densest clusters show up around Midtown, Times Square, and the SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square area, where office traffic, tourists, nightlife, and classic slice-shop neighborhoods all overlap. The map also shows a quality pattern: Lower Manhattan neighborhoods such as the West Village tend to average higher ratings, while uptown areas such as Harlem and Morningside Heights have fewer pizza places and generally lower average ratings in this dataset.
By average rating, the top five Manhattan neighborhoods for pizza are West Village, SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square, Greenwich Village, Gramercy, and East Village. I excluded Harlem (South) from that top-five callout because it only has 2 pizza places in the dataset, which makes its average too sensitive to a tiny sample.
Explore the pizza map
Switch between place count and average rating, then select a neighborhood to see its stats and jump to its top pizza places.
Top picks by neighborhood
Use the table below to search for a neighborhood and see its top pizza places, or pick a neighborhood from the map above and jump straight here.
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West Village
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Takeaways
- Midtown and Times Square have the most pizza places but with average ratings… volume isn’t quality.
- West Village, SoHo, Greenwhich Village, Gramercy, and Easy Village have the highest rated places on average.
- The highest-rated individual spots (4.9+) from the previous post are spread across neighborhoods, not concentrated in any one area.
How this data was collected
Same dataset as the Manhattan pizza analysis:
- Source: Google Maps (2026)
- Scope: Businesses categorized as pizza in Manhattan
- Neighborhood assignment: NYC neighborhood boundaries via NYC Open Data, spatial joined with pizza place coordinates using GeoPandas
- Tools: Python
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