Slice of life: New York’s famed $1 street pizza under threat from rising costs

Cheap street pizza is one of New York's charms, but could supply chain problems and inflation this spell the end?

Well, you can never go wrong with bread, cheese and tomato," Lou Reed, poet of the New York streets, would sometimes remark as he passed by one of the city's multitude of pizzerias.

The late musician was a fan of Coney Island's legendary Totonno's, close to the site of of one of the first recorded pizza parlors established by Italian immigrants in the 1880s.