Is New Haven the Pizza Capital of the U.S.? ‘They’re Outta Their Minds.’

Salvatore Carlino knows what it takes to make the perfect New York slice: He grew up in his parents’ pizza shop, Papa Leone, in Brooklyn’s Sheepshead Bay, and now owns his own pizzeria, Lucia, with locations in Brooklyn and Manhattan.So when a New York Times reporter called to inform him that a member of Congress planned to declare New Haven, Conn., and not New York City, the pizza capital of the United States on the House floor, Mr. Carlino’s response was swift.“This has to be a prank call,” he said, insisting. Twice.“Oh, no,” Frank Tuttolomondo, who owns Mama’s Too in…