Johnny's has the luxury of not having to own the property.
Galesi owns it.
Development at City Center LLC 695 Rotterdam Industrial Park Schenectady NY 12306
Being publicly funded helps keep the prices down.
The Galesi mafia allows some to prosper, while the rest of the city is ignored but continues to pay.
Assessed value: $13,317,500
Exemptions: $13,317,500
The parking lot assessed at $9,000 is also completely tax exempt.
It's easy to give good deals when you get free passes for everything.
Johnny's is not a good deal except for those who eat there.
It's a tax burden on the rest of the county taxpayers.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Was hoping to see some honest comments about restaurant food service etc. that would allow people to make some decisions on what restaurants they might want to try. As usual, however, everything gets sidetracked with rants, politics, and the same old word out crap.
Can we try to get this back on track and talk about the experiences with restaurants!!!!
JUST BECAUSE SISSY SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO...BUT HE THINKS IT DOES!!!!! JUST BECAUSE MC1 SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO!!!!!
1st - many businesses do not own the property where they are located - and all of the other just plain nasty comments - show that many folks who comment here are just plain nasty, miserable people who are not interested in a real discussion/conversation.
2nd - we haven't been to Johnny's yet .. so I can't make a comment one way or the other -- though our family has always enjoyed the food at Malozzi's, the Italian Community Center and Western Turnpike golf course. Will have to make a visit to Johnny's sometime in 2014.
As far as Italian food in general -- I still believe that the best Italian food is home cooked and not in a restaurant. Some dishes - like calamari or seafood fra diavalo - are harder to fix at .. and those are worth a trip to a good family run Italian restaurant.
Valente's in Watervliet is an outstanding, family-run Italian restaurant. It isn't the fanciest looking place from the outside -- but it has consistently served great food to my family and many others for over a half century.
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No restaurant can beat 'home made'. As far as italian spagetti 'sauce'... canali's and cornells does a pretty good job. Luigi's WAS the best of the best. imo
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
1st - many businesses do not own the property where they are located - and all of the other just plain nasty comments - show that many folks who comment here are just plain nasty, miserable people who are not interested in a real discussion/conversation.
2nd - we haven't been to Johnny's yet .. so I can't make a comment one way or the other -- though our family has always enjoyed the food at Malozzi's, the Italian Community Center and Western Turnpike golf course. Will have to make a visit to Johnny's sometime in 2014.
As far as Italian food in general -- I still believe that the best Italian food is home cooked and not in a restaurant. Some dishes - like calamari or seafood fra diavalo - are harder to fix at .. and those are worth a trip to a good family run Italian restaurant.
Valente's in Watervliet is an outstanding, family-run Italian restaurant. It isn't the fanciest looking place from the outside -- but it has consistently served great food to my family and many others for over a half century.
Oh my look whose back. Yep, the know it all about eating at all these various restaurants (the evidence shows) who then posts that he very rarely goes out to eat.
He needs to keep better track of what he says. (Just like all the contradictory comments about where he shops for groceries, every post is contraction of another---proof of his contradicting himself has been posted on these boards)
And for your info, DV, Most of the restaurants downtown, that do NOT pay taxes, the restaurant owners DO OWN the property as well and if they are part of metroplex, then the fincnially struggling low income homeowners in the city are paying the taxes on these FOR PROFIT businesses, and in case in haven't kept up on the news, even more homeowners are login their homes to foreclosure for inability to pay taxes!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not being "nasty" as you claim, but rather stating the FACTS, the TYRUTH, and YOU are the one who REFUSES to engage in conversation, you consistently REFUSE to respond when the FACTS are posted here, the facts WITH OFFICAL PROOF.
Of course, as you are NOT a taxpayer, you cannot engage in any intelligent conversation about property taxes and how the dems steal from the homeowners and give the money to their rich cronies downtown.
So when are you buying a house IN the city to actually live in yourself??????
And I make a prediction right here, right now,DV will NOT respond and address how downtown is hurting the city beyond belief -- how downtown IS causing a MASSIVE REDUCTION in the city's tax base, causing a HUGE increase in taxes, falling home sales, falling home sale prices, elimination of essential services to the taxpayers such as how the dems eliminated declaring snow emergencies while lavishing millions of taxpayer dollars on the millionaire and billionaires owners of properties downtown for their FOR-PROFIT businesses which then are tax exempt.
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
No restaurant can beat 'home made'. As far as italian spagetti 'sauce'... canali's and cornells does a pretty good job. Luigi's WAS the best of the best. imo
Luigi's was great. I do miss the place. I have never been to Cornell's and will not comment on the other.
Actually, I prefer my pasta "aglio e olio" or "alla pesto" -- and a pesto sauce made with walnuts and basil is just awesome. Save the tomatoes to serve with some good buffalo mozzarella for the anti-pasto.
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I used to go to Mama Bianci's way, way back in the day. I honestly couldn't tell you how the food rated, I only remember having pizza, and back then I thought McDonald's was just fine, too.
Luigi's was also famous for backroom politics........a e i o.......familia
don't really care.....just liked their sauce!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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