Whats the big deal about Aunt Suzies?

drunken revival

Also, how to you feel about giving/receiving blowjobs at Aunt Suzies/in the bike lane?

danny hellman

Peanuts wrote: Yup...they claim the Ocean Parkway bike lane as their own...but I'd rather deal with pedestrians than cars/buses/trucks

Ocean Parkway Eastbound has one bike lane side by side with a pedestrian lane, while the Westbound side is entirely off-limits to bikes. Meanwhile, the one bike lane is always scattered with pedestrians.

Fuck Aunt Suzie's, La Villa's better anyway.

thinkdream

aunt suzie's does suck. and speaking of bike lanes and pedestrians.. check out the bike lane slash pedestrian villa in times square.. whoever thought of that deserves poop on a plate. the moral.. pedestrians should eat at aunt suzies.

8thandprez

Now that I think about it, DOT should really do an Amsterdam-style bike lane on PPW. I just don't think that NYers can get past their love of double parking in bike lanes.

danny hellman

8thandPrez wrote: I just don't think that NYers can get past their love of double parking in bike lanes.

That's why they need to get ticketed.

emhowell

Subject: Bike Lane

Just FYI, the owner of Aunt Suzies, who is also the head of the 5th Ave Business Improvement District and brought you things such as the 5th Ave Street Fair, does not oppose the bike lane, simply a re-classification of the bike lane. I work there, so don't take away my tips.

Also, Park Slope is still part of New York City (last time I checked), so if you want European bike lanes, move back to the west coast or a mid-western college town, that or just get it over with and move to Westchester. This isn't the suburbs.

lo kee

well, emhowell - the food still sucks. thanks for stopping by.

danny hellman

Subject: Re: Bike Lane

emhowell wrote:

Also, Park Slope is still part of New York City (last time I checked), so if you want European bike lanes, move back to the west coast or a mid-western college town, that or just get it over with and move to Westchester. This isn't the suburbs.

No, it isn't the suburbs. The suburbs were designed around the automobile, and would become uninhabitable without it. Meanwhile, the core of our city predates the auto, and many of its narrow streets were never meant to accommodate two way traffic, massive trucks, and SUVs. Our current auto-centric culture is unhealthy, unsustainable, and must be phased out.

Before suggesting that people should move to the suburbs to make way for city traffic, you should consider the 40,000 deaths per year due to autos, the ongoing political turmoil in the Middle East, and the devastating impact of the automobile on our environment.

Anyone who drives to Aunt Suzie's when the subway is four blocks away would have to be a boob. I travel often by subway to Astoria, Jackson Heights, Flushing & Manhattan restaurants.

karl the druid

this forum has strayed from the topic

please return to the scheduled mockery

of the italians and the maltese

j0518

Drunken Revival wrote: [quote=J0518]I'm boycotting all bike riders

How do you boycot a bike rider?

I'd give them the same bad look I'd give a plate of average southern Italian food from restaurants on the west side of 5th ave.

Whew....i managed to get that on topic.

longtimesloper

J0518 wrote: I'm boycotting all bike riders for never obeying the rules of traffic and almost running right over me about five times a day in Park Slope.

My opinion of Aunt Suzie's remains the same as it was on 4/16.

I agree with you there. bike riders riding the wrong way in the bike lanes (if the street goes in one direction, ride in that direction, not the opposite direction!), not stopping for lights or for any other traffic rules, etc. etc. it's great if bikers want a fair share of the road, but they should obey the road rules.

OK, back on topic, the food at Aunt Suzie's stinks, but, i said that already, LOL

ringrunner

I have always liked Aunt Suzie's.

longtimesloper

Well, we all know you need help ring.

ljnd

In European cities, which massively predate the auto, they manage to make it all work. Bikes, Vespas, cars, pedestrians all share tiny narrow cobbled roads the size of cowpaths. Because the cars are small and go slow. (The Vespas, on the other hand, will kill ya.)

Aunt Suzie's is reliable. Some folks appreciate reliable over anything else. You always know what you are getting when you go there.

dodger123

Subject: Best Meatballs and Vodka Sauce in Brooklyn

I don't know much except that I've lived and eaten in Brooklyn for 24 years and Aunt Suzies has the best meatballs of any that I've had in Brooklyn! And, all of their sauces are homemade, the best being the vodka sauce, which is always the right blend of cream and tomato sauce. There is a reason why families and Broolynites from all over have been trekking to Aunt Suzies for 25 years! It's not because they have mediocre palettes and believe me, the prices have not always been this good for the consumer. You should be lucky you can get a decent meal at Aunt Suzies for such a reasonable price.

The issue with the bike lane is that it should be shared between cyclists and delivery people because they keep getting exorbitant tickets for parking in the bike lane. If you want 5th Avenue to continue to flourish, we need the deliveries to keep coming, and we need to figure out a way for cyclists interests to be protected.

longtimesloper

Are you an owner or something there? I see you have only 2 posts and both of them are promoting Aunt Suzie's.

veets

Which might be ok to do if you announce what your connection is to what you are promoting.

MOD

Shill

veets

Mamacita.. I was looking for a way not to use that word but agree you are most likely correct.. Shill.

longtimesloper

OK, so I am not the only one this was obvious to?

ringrunner

Me too. But I still want to eat there. Even if they are anti bike and pro truck

MOD

I'm on the fence on whether to eat there. I mean, there's so many bad reviews, yet, it's kinda cheap and has basic italian dishes -how bad can they mess it up?

Funny thing, my sister and her husband lived in PS in the 1990s. They have remarked that they always wanted to check out Suzies but some inexplicable reason it turned them off. So they never went. Even when they came back to visit me in 2006 they contemplated going but decided to go to LaVilla (sp?) instead.

Just goes to show, there's a vibe about the place that screams 'unauthentic'
Not that I'm expecting al di la or anything.

carnivore

If you want cheap, tasty Italian-American food, you should try Cataldo's on Vanderbilt.

longtimesloper

It can be bad when the sauce is blech!

Got to do something about your taste buds ring

ringrunner

LongTimeSloper wrote: It can be bad when the sauce is blech!

Got to do something about your taste buds ring

Maybe we can have a big family dinner there. I will tell you what I like and you can tell me what you don't

longtimesloper

My list is going to be a lot longer than yours, LOL

carnivore

ringrunner wrote: [quote=LongTimeSloper]It can be bad when the sauce is blech!

Got to do something about your taste buds ring

Maybe we can have a big family dinner there. I will tell you what I like and you can tell me what you don't
If you're treating, I'd be happy to give them another try. But I'm not paying money to eat that food again.

belzjm

aunt suzie's is THE WORST!!!!

prezst

all this vitriol seems, at the least, unprovoked, and, at the extreme, contrived. the restaurant would not have out-lasted most-others in the neighborhood, including the ones facing it on 5th avenue, if it didn't appeal to large masses of people. at the same time, aunt suzie's has earned your respect, because it was a, if not the, leader of the 5th avenue renaissance. be thankful it's there.

carnivore

prezst wrote: all this vitriol seems, at the least, unprovoked, and, at the extreme, contrived. the restaurant would not have out-lasted most-others in the neighborhood, including the ones facing it on 5th avenue, if it didn't appeal to large masses of people. at the same time, aunt suzie's has earned your respect, because it was a, if not the, leader of the 5th avenue renaissance. be thankful it's there.

The most successful restaurants (least likely to close) in the U.S. are McDonald's franchises. Appeal to large masses of people isn't everything. The only reason I'm thankful it's there is that it lures people taking their young kids out to eat away from restaurants I actually want to go to. This isn't vitriol. I've got nothing against them; I just don't have any interest in going there.

If you want to see vitriol, see what I've written about Gino's pizza on Flatbush.