Two New York pizzerias, both alike in dignity, prospered in the Big Apple as coal-fired descendants of the same famed Italian ancestor: Pasquale “Patsy” Lancieri, the inventor of by-the-slice pizza.

Patsy Grimaldi, who died last week, was a crucial link between the early days of brick oven pizza and the pies that we eat all around town today. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Friday. Today we’ll ...

That’s a lotta dough! A long-running battle between a pair of famed Italian eateries over the “Patsy’s” name has exploded once again, with a Harlem pizzeria with the name receiving a $300,000 penalty ...