New York Eats Here

Oliver Buchannon

New York Eats Here

The Weekender

WE COUNTED WHAT 43 PERCENT TAKES FROM A $1.25 PASTRY

Jul 31, 2026

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WE COUNTED WHAT 43 PERCENT TAKES FROM A $1.25 PASTRY

$55M landed. Fordham went dark.

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USDA wants 28 staple varieties on every bodega shelf in Port Richmond by November

Jul 27, 2026

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USDA wants 28 staple varieties on every bodega shelf in Port Richmond by November

Port Richmond Avenue runs down through the North Shore of Staten Island toward the water, and the stores along it are the kind the federal government has spent two years deciding what to do about. Carnicerías. Latin markets. Corner groceries where the register sits by the door and the cooler holds what the block actually buys. Most of them take SNAP. On November 4, the rule that decides whether they can keep doing that changes underneath them.The Food and Nutrition Service published the final version on May 8. It took effect July 7. Stores have until November 4 to conform.

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Fordham Road lost a room that seated whole families while fifty-five million landed downhill

Jul 26, 2026

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Fordham Road lost a room that seated whole families while fifty-five million landed downhill

The Dallas BBQ at the foot of West Fordham Road is closed. Workers were seen clearing the space in the first week of January, and a printed notice went up on the door. It was the chain's first Bronx location, open for more than twenty years by the company's own count, and it sat at the corner of Cedar Avenue, next door to Salsa Con Fuego, in a building that housed Jimmy's Bronx Cafe before that.

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The City Authorized 2,200 Vending Licenses This Year. Corona Is Still Selling Without One.

Jul 26, 2026

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The City Authorized 2,200 Vending Licenses This Year. Corona Is Still Selling Without One.

On July 1 a five-year clock started. Under laws the City Council forced through over a mayoral veto in January, the Health Department began offering 2,200 supervisory license applications a year, every year, through 2031. On Roosevelt Avenue the carts that were working in June are the same carts working now, and most of them are working the way they always have. Without paper.That is not a contradiction anyone is hiding. It is written into how the system counts.

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Nine Steps And Eight Months Later, A Sunset Park Bar Got Its Curb

Jul 25, 2026

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Nine Steps And Eight Months Later, A Sunset Park Bar Got Its Curb

On Fifth Avenue in Sunset Park, in a stretch of Brooklyn where the bakeries open before six and the bodegas never really close, there is a small bar at 4022 called Judy's. Coffee in the morning, beer and wine at night. Sam Goetz runs it. In the spring of 2024, when the city reopened its roadway dining program, he filed for permission to put tables in the parking lane directly outside his own front door. The approval landed eight months later.

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The recall covered 27 states and named no restaurants, so kitchens guessed instead

Jul 25, 2026

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The recall covered 27 states and named no restaurants, so kitchens guessed instead

On July 17 Taylor Farms voluntarily removed iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico. The CDC says the recall covers lettuce sold at retail stores and lettuce served in restaurants. ABC7 New York reported the product went out to 27 states between June 29 and July 16. The notice carried brand abbreviations, some product descriptions and use by dates. It carried no retailer names and no restaurant names. Every kitchen in the country that buys shredded iceberg was handed the same instruction on the same day, which was to work it out for themselves.

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New York Ended The Permit Cap And Then Dated The Relief Past This Summer

Jul 24, 2026

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New York Ended The Permit Cap And Then Dated The Relief Past This Summer

Corona, Queens. On Roosevelt Avenue under the 7, the carts and the folding tables run from morning into the dark, and most of the people working them do not hold the paper the city requires. That is not a character flaw. It is arithmetic. There are roughly 20,500 mobile food vendors in New York City and only about a quarter of them have the documents. In January the City Council finally voted to fix the math. Then it set the fix to arrive in stages, and the first one that touches most vendors lands in 2027.

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The Weekender

HUNTS POINT MOVES A QUARTER OF THIS CITY'S PRODUCE

Jul 24, 2026

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3 min read

HUNTS POINT MOVES A QUARTER OF THIS CITY'S PRODUCE

We counted the Bronx entries in a year of New York food coverage. The number is worse than you think.

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Twelve hundred arrests in eight weeks produced one hundred ninety five deportations in New York

Jul 24, 2026

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Twelve hundred arrests in eight weeks produced one hundred ninety five deportations in New York

The number that matters in the latest federal immigration file is not the arrest count. It is the distance between the arrest count and everything that was supposed to follow it.

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Nobody Had To Raid Fifth Avenue For Sunset Park's Dining Rooms To Empty Out

Jul 23, 2026

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Nobody Had To Raid Fifth Avenue For Sunset Park's Dining Rooms To Empty Out

Fifth Avenue in Sunset Park, Brooklyn runs from 38th Street to 64th, and for most of that stretch Spanish is the working language of the counter. It is a corridor built on volume. Thin margins, high turns, families who shop three times a week instead of once. Volume is exactly what has gone missing.

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Your Block Lost Its Outdoor Tables to a Paperwork Rule Buried in the City Charter

Jul 23, 2026

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3 min read

Your Block Lost Its Outdoor Tables to a Paperwork Rule Buried in the City Charter

Every roadway cafe requires its own public hearing before it opens. That requirement sits in the City Charter, alongside revocable consent, so the Council cannot repeal it on its own. This November it goes to voters instead.

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New York Froze Street Vending in 1979. It Took 47 Years to Move.

Jul 22, 2026

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New York Froze Street Vending in 1979. It Took 47 Years to Move.

Walk any commercial stretch in New York and you will pass them within a block. The fruit cart at the subway mouth. The halal griddle steaming on the corner. The folding table stacked with socks and phone cases. The woman selling sliced mango in a bag with chili and lime. Roughly 23,000 people earn a living this way across the five boroughs, according to the Immigration Research Initiative's 2024 study, the first rigorous count the city has ever had. They are the smallest businesses in New York. For nearly half a century, the city treated most of them as a problem to be ticketed.

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The City Put Seventy Million Dollars Behind Five Grocery Stores And Opened None Yet

Jul 22, 2026

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The City Put Seventy Million Dollars Behind Five Grocery Stores And Opened None Yet

In April 2026, the city turned food into a budget line. Seventy million dollars in capital funding for five city-owned grocery stores, one in each borough, aimed at a plain problem: groceries in New York cost roughly 66 percent more than they did a decade ago, outpacing the rest of the country. The pitch is that public ownership can strip out the costs that normally get passed to shoppers and hold prices down on staples. It is one of the largest single bets the city has made on running its own food access in a generation. As of the summer of 2026, not one of the five stores is open.

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The Apps Don't Know You. They Know Money.

Jul 21, 2026

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The Apps Don't Know You. They Know Money.

Google Maps sells the top of the page. Yelp averages strangers. The algorithm works for the platform. Taste ID starts from the one thing none of them asked about: you.

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NEW YORK IS COUNTING A $3.3 BILLION WORLD CUP WINDFALL AND THE CORNER SPOTS THAT FED THE CROWDS ARE STILL WAITING ON THEIR SLICE

Jul 21, 2026

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NEW YORK IS COUNTING A $3.3 BILLION WORLD CUP WINDFALL AND THE CORNER SPOTS THAT FED THE CROWDS ARE STILL WAITING ON THEIR SLICE

From East Harlem to Elmhurst, New York just fed the world for a month. Spain beat Argentina in the final on July 19 out at MetLife, more than a million visitors moved through the region, and the city that hosted them keeps quoting a single number to describe what it was worth. 3.3 billion dollars. The regional host committee announced the figure by ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. It is a big, clean, quotable number. It is also, according to the economists who study exactly this kind of number, very much overstated. Both can be true, and underneath both sits a question the spots that actually cooked for the crowds keep asking. Where is our slice.

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THE CITY ATE THE WORLD CUP ON DELIVERY AND THE APPS JUST GOT CLEARED TO TAKE UP TO 43 PERCENT

Jul 20, 2026

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THE CITY ATE THE WORLD CUP ON DELIVERY AND THE APPS JUST GOT CLEARED TO TAKE UP TO 43 PERCENT

For a month, watching the World Cup in New York meant ordering in. Spain beat Argentina in the final on July 19 out at MetLife, the whole metro turned into one long viewing party, and a lot of that party moved through a phone. Here is the part almost nobody clocked while the wings were still warm. A city law that took effect in 2025 quietly raised the ceiling on what a delivery app is allowed to take from every one of those orders, from 23 percent to as much as 43. The tournament did not cause it. The tournament made it loud, because for four weeks the whole city was eating in front of a screen and paying an app to bring it.

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THREE DOZEN FEDERAL LAWSUITS HIT QUEENS RESTAURANTS AND THE RAMPS STILL DID NOT GET BUILT

Jul 20, 2026

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THREE DOZEN FEDERAL LAWSUITS HIT QUEENS RESTAURANTS AND THE RAMPS STILL DID NOT GET BUILT

The step at 42-01-03 Broadway is maybe seven inches tall. New Ho Wah has held that Astoria corner for decades, yellow awning, free delivery, egg rolls half the neighborhood grew up on. That seven inches is now the subject of a federal lawsuit, the newest entry on a docket of roughly three dozen filed against Queens small businesses since 2012 by a single plaintiff, according to a New York Post review of the court filings. The restaurant and its landlord are both named. The complaint describes the plaintiff, in the language of the actual court record, as an avid enthusiast of the restaurant's Chinese chicken. The Post reports it is unclear whether he ever tried to enter.

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THE SMALLEST KITCHEN PAYS FIRST

Jul 19, 2026

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THE SMALLEST KITCHEN PAYS FIRST

The raise New York just voted for lands on the smallest room before it touches anyone who can afford it.

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NEW YORK EATS SEVEN WAYS, AND ONE OF THEM HAS YOUR NAME ON IT

Jul 19, 2026

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NEW YORK EATS SEVEN WAYS, AND ONE OF THEM HAS YOUR NAME ON IT

You order before you sit down, or you refuse to order until you have read the room. You ride forty minutes for one sandwich, or you have not crossed your own block for a meal since last winter. You clock the rebrand before you clock the menu. None of it is random. Every New Yorker eats in a pattern, and the pattern has a name.

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The Little Caribbean bakeries that built Flatbush are getting priced off the block one lease at a time

Jul 18, 2026

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The Little Caribbean bakeries that built Flatbush are getting priced off the block one lease at a time

Flatbush wakes up on hard dough. Before the avenue fills, before the buses run heavy down Nostrand, somebody is already pulling trays. On this stretch of Brooklyn the Caribbean bakery is not a trend and it is not a discovery. It is infrastructure. It is where the block gets fed, where a few dollars still buys something hot, where three generations of an immigrant neighborhood learned the taste of home in a folded pocket of dough.

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THE BRONX FEEDS NEW YORK EVERY DAY. FOOD MEDIA STILL WON'T CROSS THE RIVER.

Jul 18, 2026

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THE BRONX FEEDS NEW YORK EVERY DAY. FOOD MEDIA STILL WON'T CROSS THE RIVER.

A quarter of this city's produce moves through one Bronx peninsula. So does a third of the meat and nearly half the fish. Now count the Bronx entries in a year of New York food coverage. The gap is not an accident. It is an audience decision, and it has a mechanism.

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Albany banned the ICE contract but left the tip-off that reaches immigrant kitchens legal

Jul 17, 2026

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Albany banned the ICE contract but left the tip-off that reaches immigrant kitchens legal

Sixty percent of the people cooking, prepping, and washing dishes in this city were born in another country, according to the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs, which also estimates that roughly one in five is undocumented. Food Services and Drinking Places is the industry that employs the largest number of foreign-born workers in New York, and the Center for Migration Studies counts food service as the city's single biggest employer of undocumented workers, at around 58,000. So when Albany writes the rules for how local police deal with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it is writing rules for the people who feed the city.

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The Weekender

WE FOUND THE STORE THE CITY IS STILL TRYING TO BUILD

Jul 17, 2026

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WE FOUND THE STORE THE CITY IS STILL TRYING TO BUILD

The South Bronx already built the store. Roosevelt Avenue got swept. Mott Haven feeds itself. Harlem never missed. Seven doors for the weekend.

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Urban Hawker Closes July 17 After a Redevelopment Sale, Not a Failed Business

Jul 16, 2026

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Urban Hawker Closes July 17 After a Redevelopment Sale, Not a Failed Business

On July 17, the last plates go out at Urban Hawker, the Singaporean food hall at 135 West 50th Street in Midtown Manhattan. Founder KF Seetoh announced the closing in a June 30 Facebook post, and the detail that matters is why. According to Seetoh, the owners of the building sold the property for redevelopment, and the team was alerted to the potential sale roughly a year ago. The food, by every available account, was not the problem.

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OPEN TO ANYONE FOR TEN YEARS, THE NORTH SIXTH STOREFRONT IS GOING MEMBERS ONLY

Jul 16, 2026

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OPEN TO ANYONE FOR TEN YEARS, THE NORTH SIXTH STOREFRONT IS GOING MEMBERS ONLY

For ten years, 98 North 6th Street in Williamsburg was a door anyone could walk through. Urban Outfitters ran a multi-floor store there called Space Ninety 8, with a rooftop bar, a restaurant, and a ground-floor market that sold work from local designers. It closed in April 2024 after its lease ran out, according to Brownstoner, which reported the chain had been paying below-market rent on a building whose renewal price would run much higher. The storefront has sat empty since.

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