You simply need to take a quick zag to the the right then straight in an easterly fashion. Then, right before you get to the last person in line, you should get skinny, like the arrow below, turn sideways and kind of shuffle, either with your butt toward the crowd or the cars. (We prefer butt toward the crowd.) If you're carrying bags, then just try to hold them over your head, as if you're wading through a stream. You could also say EXCUSE ME, PARDON ME. But they're not really listening to you.
Or, you can just walk on the other side of the street.
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Or just hip check the f*ckers. Brunch at Prune does not make anyone better than you, just more pretentious.
i find these "people" don't like to be touched by the residents (pick any people on any restaurant line - (momofuko, prune, hearth et al) and if you lightly touch them on the shoulder and say "excuse me" they will promptly move aside because if you live here and are not on line you must have some awful disease or bedbugs or something and your touch is so awful they must get out of the way as fast as they can.
excuse me without the touch does not work at all.
Those arrows are too funny!
Just walk right into them.
Trust me. They'll move.
These people are total p*ssies.
If I time it right I have my dog shit right in front of them.
You post this in humor, but it ain't funny.
I share a block with Mogador and have been forced to walk into the street - often with my small dog and on several instances with children.
It is brutally unfair and I plan to speak with the owner now that high season is soon upon us. If nothing else, and I expect little, I'll have been proactive.
People - automatically on the defense - are unnecessarily nasty when you ask them to clear a path.
I wish residents were more insistent on changing this lousy status quo.
Haha, Glamma! You made me laugh out loud.
So true. The girls in the ballet flats won't do anything and their femme lads won't either so ok, will not feel bad about letting my stiff elbow get me by..
Can anyone offer pointers to avoiding the crowd in front of Westville?
If you live there i feel bad for you. i used to live on busy second ave. anyone else should just cross the street and give it no further thought. for me thats the happier choice anyway. once i started comparing people and pigeons. when im biking and there are pigeons standing around in the bike lane i just swerve and avoid em, not hold my line and shout at them for walking in the wrong place. now when its people standing in the lane i treat it the same and at the end of the day its just easier on my psyche.
DOS should give Prune (and Clinton Street Fakery) a fucking blizzard of hefty tickets for blocking the sidewalk with garbage. My little Daisy (a tough little English Bull Terrier) hates both those bottle necks, but she sure is good at parting the waves.
a few years back, before the mass gentrification of the lower east side and the east village, the female owner of prune openly stated her contempt for the people of the neighborhood and that she wanted to bring her own kind in. i don't remember exactly where i read this, but this was before the days of blogging, that's for sure. perhaps in a newspaper? since then, i have been hoping this place closes down. if anyone remembers...
You know what business use to always have lines in front of it during the weekends? The 2nd Avenue Deli. Now that it's a Chase Bank there are no lines. Problem solved, right?
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