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I wrote about the most obvious thing in the world New York Magazine nymag.com/intelligencer/…

There's a Trump chill effect in NYC immigrant neighborhoods, businesses say. I spoke to 14 business owners and staff in Corona who say they've seen steep drop in sales since Trump's inauguration. They say it's due to fears of immigration enforcement. gothamist.com/news/deportati…

"Quid pro quo is just a fancy way of saying the art of the deal." thebaffler.com/latest/quid-ga…

The other week, I drove out east to see Doug Corwin, Long Island's last duck farmer. A month earlier, bird flu ripped through his flock of 100,000 ducks. “I’ve never seen anything as contagious and as virulent as this, nothing that even compares.” grubstreet.com/article/bird-f…

“There is so much hypocrisy with the content we consume,” Bradley says. “We have people driving Teslas when Elon Musk’s out there doing a Sieg Heil. So it’s like, where are you gonna draw the line in terms of where your money goes?” thecut.com/article/candac…

Couldn’t possibly imagine a bigger story this week… Brighton Beach’s Tashkent Supermarket is finally, after three years of anticipation, opening its Manhattan location grubstreet.com/article/tashke…

“Successful people sometimes have more than one property,” [Adams spokesperson Kayla Mamelak] told THE CITY in a text. “He has a residence in BK which, as you know, is in NYC.” thecity.nyc/2025/03/07/jef…

CHAZ

everyone is still talking about the australian invasion of brooklyn

how did ICE know where to find Mahmoud Khalil, and who will they go after next? I wrote about the vast surveillance network that powers ICE arrests, and the Zionist groups making deportation wishlists for the agency:

spoke with some people about the restaurant industry five years after the shutdown. there was a sense then that everything could change, but what did?  “What happened? Genuinely, I’m trying to think where did the momentum go?” grubstreet.com/article/covid-…

grub street diet theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Excellent story about the NYC restaurant underbelly from Chris E. Crowley grubstreet.com/article/delici…

reported on the financial situation at Delicious Hospitality, the group behind 2010s hot spots like Charlie Bird, including a $4.6 million bankruptcy filing, unforgiven PPP loans, and a lawsuit from food distributor Baldor over $137k in unpaid invoices grubstreet.com/article/delici…

post-literacy nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Liv Schmidt was banned from TikTok for violating its rules promoting eating disorders. But on Instagram, she not only is allowed to post extremely low calorie diets and weight loss “hacks” like filling up on tea and ice water — she’s making $$$ off it. thecut.com/article/influe…

also the Barclays Center is an abomination — a black hole of despair. Horrible place to watch basketball. Tear it down