By Nicole Breskin
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
GREENWICH VILLAGE — Get pizza while it’s hot, and cheap.
Greenwich Village's top pizzerias will be dishing out slices for $1 Thursday evening for a fundraiser that will benefit the food rescue organization City Harvest.
GAP Adventures, at 364 Sixth Ave., will host the event that puts more than 300 slices up for grabs from 6:30 p.m.
Participating pizzerias include some of the city's best, such as Lombardi’s with its perfectly charred Napoletana-style pizza and John’s of Bleecker Street that serves thin crust pies, but hasn't sold a slice since 1929. Joe’s quintessential New York pizza slices — a celebrity favorite of Kevin Spacey, Ben Affleck and Kevin Bacon — is also up for a $1.
“Some of these pizzerias don’t even sell pizza by the slice,” said Scott Wiener, a musician turned New York City pizza tour guide, who is organizing the event.
“We’re taking the best pizza in Manhattan and making it accessible. You can’t get pizza this good for this cheap in Manhattan.”
Called “Slice Out Hunger,” the event will also hold an exhibition of pizza boxes from around the United States and the world that Weiner collected over the years as a pizza aficionado, including yellow boxes with cartoons from Israel to even some eco-friendly options that are washable and reusable.
A raffle will have prizes like “Throw Dough,” a synthetic dough that allows aspiring pizza makers to practice their throw and catch, and copies of Pizza Magazine Quarterly’s “Pizza Magazine.”
