Norm’s Brings the Slice Revival to Downtown Brooklyn

The city, it’s no secret, is going through something of a renaissance for the New York slice. Ed Levine agrees, writing last year of the slice that “you could also argue it’s been reinvented,” as does the New York Times critic Pete Wells, who in a review of Mama’s Too added that there has been “a great reawakening of slice culture.”

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Located in downtown Brooklyn, Norm’s isn’t just different from Upside in name: It takes its design cues from another decade (the ’60s), serves a different menu of more straightforwardly classic pizzas with an even thinner and crispier crust, and is, at least for now, sans squares. What remains the same is that they’re working with Anthony Falco, who now consults on pizzerias internationally but was the guy who really shaped the style of obsessed-about, often-copied pizzas at Roberta’s.