
Notorious NYC mob hangout Aldo’s trades in its shady past with Italian halal reboot
NY Post
It was an offer he couldn’t refuse.
One of the Big Apple’s most notorious Mafia hotspots is shedding its wiseguy reputation to become a halal Italian restaurant — thanks to a former pizza-slinger who bought the business from its cash-strapped owners in December.
Sheik Ahsan Ali, 29, the new proprietor of Aldo’s Pizzaria and Restaurant in Ozone Park, Queens, celebrated his restaurant’s grand re-opening last week, although without the pork and alcohol that fueled some of the reputed backdoor gambling rings and 14-hour Mafioso lunches there over the past six decades.
“There’s a need for change because the demographic is changing,” Ali recently told The Post.
“We have a lot of immigrants, and not everybody is eating because of certain things — like some folks can’t have alcohol,” said Ali, who spent years working behind Aldo’s counter.
“We have to change with the times.”
