NO LONGER A PLACE FOR ME
I've been a lifelong visitor to Native New Yorker (now Native) over the past 2 decades with this location being my most visited. Each and every time I ordered the wings as I fell in love with them the very first time. Literally the only other thing I've had is a side salad (and a cold beer of course) during my hundreds of visits but sad to say this place has lost me...
1) Price: Nearly $14 when you factor in tax for a dozen wings is ridiculous. I can get a cheap steak at some placed for that.
2) Quality & Flavor: not sure when they changed wing suppliers but these wings don't even resemble the taste of chicken, more like a bunch of gristle packed onto a bone. I wouldn't feed my dog this stuff, my stomach is iron clad and it was reminding me shortly after we left that I shouldn't have put such crappy (not even mediocre) wings in my belly and had gas all night and I can eat anything.
3) Ambience: the layout of the dining area is still the same, two side-by-side dinning areas. However they removed all of the TV's that ran down the middle separating both areas. For our group that was in a booth against the far wall 2 people had to sit on the edge of the seat cushion to watch the game on the wall next to the booth 2 doors down which quickly led to my neck hurting. Everyone else at the table couldn't watch the game as the only one in sight was clear across on the other far wall that backs up to the bar area in the other dining area and it was so far away you couldn't really see anything and watching people in the other area eat their food or stare at their head was a bit awkward.
It was good while it lasted, but somebody appears to have made changes forgetting about the quality of the product being served or the quality of the experience for the paying customers.