Gus’s Liquor Store

The Gus’ on 1^st Ave is really stinky, of cigarettes, INSIDE, but the other store on Grant is even worse. I have been in both stores over the last 4 years at least 2 times each and it never changes. I would like to support a locally owned store, but I just can’t stand it again. I am going to go to BevMo.

One of the skeezier businesses I patronize but this is an admittedly skeezy neighborhood. Ah, home. Most of the clientele have a desperate look about them, and the store manages to appear unsanitary even while reeking of disinfectant.
I have never actually bought liquor here, but I do periodically stop in for cheap lighters and rolling papers. Once I bought ice, but never again. I’m sure it’s OK for lowering the temperature in an enclosed space, but you wouldn’t want to put it in your drinks.
In Gus’s favor, the people who work here are friendly and they offer a variety of alcoholic libations at reasonable prices. But, in my mind, Gus’s will always bear the moniker my husband and I gave it when we moved in: the crack whore liquor store. You really do see some colorful characters here.
If you’re in midtown and a sign that offers 24 cans of Bud Light for $ 11.99 gets your heart racing, this is the shop for you.

Gus’s is nothing but a blight, leach and plague upon society. If you are a drug addict, hooker, or Bubble’s from the Wire, you have no business going here. I have just to check it out, not pretty and i feel sorry for anybody that has to work here. Drunks and addicts have often caused wrecks while stumbling out on to 1^st avenue. If you have to get liqueur or cigs, go somewhere please do not support this shit hole.