It's pouring on a recent Tuesday afternoon in Park Slope, and the staff of Aunt Suzie's sloshes into workanother day of cooking up the homey Italian food that's made the restaurant a neighborhood destination for the last quarter century.
At one of the center tables, the restaurant's proprietor, Irene LoRe, holds court. LoRe's been running Aunt Suzie's since it opened, keeping the restaurant's menu and decor relatively unchanged as Brooklyn's 5th Avenue has changed from a lower middle class neighborhood replete with drugs and crime into a baby-filled yuppie paradise. LoRe doesn't exactly cater her menu to her new clientele, but she's welcomed the newcomers since they started migrating over from 7th Avenue about five years ago. "They used to not come down here. It was just too dangerous," she says. "Now, you can't survive without them."
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