Coal-oven pizza in Italian Harlem, born from Pasquale Lancieri's modest 1933 shop, changed how America eats pizza—he's credited with inventing the single slice. Frank Sinatra and Joe DiMaggio lined up for the thin-crust Sicilian pies that made Patsy's a New York institution. The original location still fires its ovens with coal, turning out blistered, crackling crusts that taste like they did nearly a century ago.
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