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New York Eats Here

State Of The Street

The State Funded a $6 Million World Cup Legacy. The Operators Who Ate the Closures Got a Grant Form

Aug 16, 2026

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The State Funded a $6 Million World Cup Legacy. The Operators Who Ate the Closures Got a Grant Form

The state put six million dollars into a World Cup legacy fund and threw a free final in Central Park. The operators who absorbed the closures were routed to a grant application instead.

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Queens

How Jackson Heights Became America's Culinary Crossroads

Aug 14, 2026

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How Jackson Heights Became America's Culinary Crossroads

Three migration waves. One neighborhood. Infinite food.

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State Of The Street

The City Locked Delivery Trucks Out of Midtown and Told Almost No One Who Runs a Kitchen There

Aug 14, 2026

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The City Locked Delivery Trucks Out of Midtown and Told Almost No One Who Runs a Kitchen There

For eight match days the city sealed Midtown blocks to trucks for hours at a time. The restaurants inside learned about it from their suppliers, not the city.

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The Weekender

SAME BLOCK. ELEVEN YEARS AND FOURTEEN MONTHS APART.

Aug 14, 2026

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3 min read

SAME BLOCK. ELEVEN YEARS AND FOURTEEN MONTHS APART.

R2R, the Algorithm Tax, and the Tuesday Test, explained.

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Operator Unpacked

The 30% Trap: How Delivery Apps Capture Restaurants' Margins

Aug 14, 2026

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The 30% Trap: How Delivery Apps Capture Restaurants' Margins

Restaurants lose roughly a third of every delivery order to platform costs. Here is how the trap works, and why some operators are building their way out.

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Three Neighborhoods, One Dumpling: How Flushing, Sunset Park, and Chinatown Made the Same Dish Their Own

Aug 13, 2026

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Three Neighborhoods, One Dumpling: How Flushing, Sunset Park, and Chinatown Made the Same Dish Their Own

Rent, displacement, and survival shaped three distinct dumpling cultures across New York. The wrapper tells the story.

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The State Funded a $6 Million World Cup Legacy. The Operators Who Ate the Closures Got a Grant Form

How Jackson Heights Became America's Culinary Crossroads

The City Locked Delivery Trucks Out of Midtown and Told Almost No One Who Runs a Kitchen There

SAME BLOCK. ELEVEN YEARS AND FOURTEEN MONTHS APART.

The 30% Trap: How Delivery Apps Capture Restaurants' Margins

Three Neighborhoods, One Dumpling: How Flushing, Sunset Park, and Chinatown Made the Same Dish Their Own

FOUR NUMBERS THE RENT STORY WON'T TELL YOU

WE FEED AMERICA. NEW YORKERS KNOW WHO TO PAY. LATIN FOOD FEST PAYS IT FORWARD.

WE COUNTED WHAT 43 PERCENT TAKES FROM A $1.25 PASTRY

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

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

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

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

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

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

HUNTS POINT MOVES A QUARTER OF THIS CITY'S PRODUCE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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