Harlem Pizza owners’ new margheritaville

Harlem is hot. The owners of Harlem Pizza Co. and Harlem Burger Co. are launching a third new location — Sliced by Harlem Pizza Co.

The new spot is slated to open in March at 1215 Amsterdam Ave.

The 800-square-foot pizza joint will have 40 seats.

Owners Alper and Jeannie Uyanik, who both have finance backgrounds, have lived in Harlem since 2008.

They launched their first brick-oven eatery, Harlem Pizza Co., “because we wanted a good pizza place for our family,” Jeannie Uyanik tells Side Dish.

So did friends and neighbors in their building, who became investors.

Current pizzas include classic margheritas; the Hangover, with sweet sausage; anchovy pizza; spicy salami pizza; a white smoked ’shroom pizza; and a merguez lamb sausage pizza created as an homage to Alper Uyanik’s Turkish heritage. There are also fresh salads, locally sourced ingredients and hit desserts like Nutella calzones. Executive chef Jonathan Shepard, who will oversee all three locations, got his start at Nobu and worked at eateries including Momofuku Noodle Bar and at Donatella Arpaia’s short-lived Dona- tella. Arpaia sent Shepard to Naples to learn from the masters about how to make pizza. The training worked. Shepard came back to win Guy Fieri’s “Guy’s Grocery Games” Pizza Masters show on the Food Network.

His Harlem pizzas are thin crusted to perfection.

The Uyaniks have arranged for street artists Angela China, known as “GumShoe,” and Rammer Martinez Sanchez, known as “Rammer,” to decorate the space.