Posted on 11/20/2025 5:34:23 PM PST by Angelino97
A swanky new grocer in downtown Manhattan has been getting death threats over its stratospheric prices – even as the shop was forced to briefly shutter this week after its shelves were emptied by a customer frenzy, The Post has learned.
Meadow Lane, a posh store in Tribeca at 355 Greenwich St., has drawn such massive crowds since it opened last Friday that it was forced to impose quotas on goods. Those include $625 tins of Siberian caviar, $65 bottles of extra virgin olive oil, $74 containers of matcha powder and gluten-free chicken nuggets priced at $15 per half dozen.
“We can’t keep up,” founder Sammy Nussdorf, known online as “Brokeback Contessa,” told Side Dish. “We outperformed all of our projections.”
Meanwhile, the 28-year-old New Yorker said he’s also been receiving death threats and hate – with online loons enraged by his prices as socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has relentlessly attacked the rich.
“I have death threats. People are threatening to burn down the store and throw rocks through the windows. The hate is out of control. They focus on any imperfection. It’s politically charged,” said Nussdorf, whose parents previously made Forbes’ list of America’s richest families...
Now, Meadow Lane is selling out hundreds of pounds of chicken per day and doesn’t “have enough space in the fridge to keep up with demand,” according to the shop’s director of operations.
Customers have been wolfing down the nuggets, which are crispy and delicious, along with a $20 Chinese chicken salad. It is packed with tangy dressing and edamame, cabbage, cucumbers and carrots that lend the dish a mysteriously satisfying crunch...
The striking interiors, from designer Sarah Carpenter, include carved nooks where customers can put their baskets while paying the cashier.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
“I love [Nussdorf] on TikTok and I am also gluten free. I want to try the chicken nuggets and the matcha,” she told Side Dish.
No wonder young people can't afford housing or pay off their student loans.
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Even the checkered blue and beige Meadow Lane reusable tote bag, reminiscent of a Louis Vuitton pattern, is in demand.
No soup for you!
Beat me to it…by seconds!
“ No wonder young people can’t afford housing”
These people are paying $4,500 a month to live with roaches. This doesn’t make a dent.
Gotta be quick
I hate you so much for selling me things I want to buy!
instead of quotas he should just raise prices.
Exactly.
Brokeback Contessa?
🤔
From the images, the food doesn't appear much different from regular food.
Do they have any bananas duct taped to drywall for making posh banana pudding?
How are they going to keep outthe shoplifters?
It’s a status-symbol place, and the status-seeking have been patronizing status-symbol places since approximately forever. No real surprise here.
If you mark up a 25 cent chicken nugget to $20, that will cover a lot of shoplifting.
Do they accept snap ?
I would just as soon avoid contact with perverts like Sammy Nussdorf, but since they have to make a living, too, I don’t mind if he makes his money by charging outrageous prices for items that are extraordinary and/or difficult to get.
He’s not forming the lives young children, is not interfering with people living their lives, is not involved with politics, and as far as I know doesn’t scare the horses in public.
NYC should be happy that he gets people with lots of money to spend it in NYC in such a way to maximize tax revenue (his own profits, his landlord’s revenues, his employee’s paychecks).
“ Do they accept snap ?”
McDonald’s accepts snap. Snap can purchase soda. There’s nothing funny about snap at the moment
He’s selling high-end merchandise that the food desert people could never afford anyway, but they are offended.
Enjoy it while it lasts, New Yorkers.
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