Maybe this list will help some fellow travelers. Feel free to throw in suggestions!
Williamsburg:
- Shelter (Open late, 4.2 rating as of this writing)
- Essentially an STK for Pizza outside of the Meat Packing District in Williamsburg
Downtown Brooklyn: (You can really have some good pizza here)
- Circa (Amazing crust, this is also a brewery with shuffleboard, it's a crowd pleaser, good for large groups, 4.4 rating)
- Fortina (Inside Dekalb Market Food Hall, Delicious pies, 4.0 rating)
DUMBO (Avoid the anything with a line except for ... )
- Juliana's (The original Grimaldi's before they sold the name, 4.6 rating, the not original Grimaldi's around the corner is a 4.0)
- Cecconi's (Mostly for the view if you can sit outside, 4.1 rating)
Bensonhurst (If you make it here...)
- DaVinci Pizzeria (A Bensonhurt classic nearly 35 years old, rated 4.4 on google)
Lower Manhattan / FiDI (Not many to choose from)
- Adrienne's Pizzabar (On Stone St, so there's a lot to see here, 4.4 rating)
Little Italy (Lots of tourist traps)
- Lombardi's (Delicious, 4.1 rating)
West Village (Tons to choose from that are especially open late night)
- Joe's Pizza (True NY slices.)
- Bleecker Street Pizza (This is really good too. NY Slices, 4.3 rating)
Midtown West (Tough area to find authentic non-tourist trap pizza)
- B-Side Pizza & Wine Bar (Really good artisan pies, 4.7 rating, I didn't even realize it was that highly rated)
- Uncle Mario's (Really good slices and grandma pie, 3.9 rated)
Midtown East (Not many places to choose from in general due to health conscious work crowd)
- Uncle Paul's Pizza NY (4.3 rated)
Meat Packing District
- Filaga Pizzeria (inside Google's own building, 4.5 rated).
- Artichoke, I try to avoid medium or larger chains.
- BLKSQ - I tried this place the week they opened and had a Korean BBQ pie and a classic, it was great. Very pricey place though hence the 3.7 rating, small pies only)
Times Square
- Don't eat anything here that even looks like pizza within a 2 block radius. (from 42nd to 48th, 6th Ave to 8th Ave)
Forest Hills (Queens)
- Danny's House of Pizza (Open till 4am on weekends, 4.4 rated, cult following kind of place)
Ha remember Sbarro... that was terrible.