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@nypost reporter. I just live here. Holler: msedacca @nypost .com

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Matthew Sedacca
3 years
What do you get when you mix E. Williamsburg factories with 20-somethings? Two decades of indoor skateparks, explosions, rooftop shows, building-wide ragers, hostel rackets, porn studios, bed bugs — and more! My latest Bio of a Building for @NYMag / @Curbed .
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10 months
Stocked, locked and loaded: NYC grocers and bodega owners are getting concealed firearm licenses to protect themselves against violent shoplifters.
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Matthew Sedacca
2 years
Some personal news: Just wrapped up my first official week as a reporter with the @nypost Sunday team! Thrilled to be diving into the weird and wild and everything in between across the city. Send me all your metro goss at msedacca @nypost .com.
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5 years
“I’m not looking to have a huge insurance payout after this. I just want to reopen my doors and hire my staff back.” Amid the pandemic and mandated shutdowns, restaurants' insurance claims are getting rejected, cutting off a much-needed lifeline.
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Matthew Sedacca
3 years
Some personal news: It's my first day as a fellow at @TheCounter ! I'm excited to be joining such an incredible and smart team to track the winding Covid-19 recovery efforts in restaurants and agriculture. Holler at matthew.sedacca @thecounter .org.
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3 years
There are a lot of bangers in @ShawnMcCreesh 's report on DC's return, but few top this analysis of Biden having a good time: "Like a German shepherd running into an electric fence, Mr. Biden cuts himself off whenever he begins to hold forth too long."
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2 years
The New York City rental market has become so hot that building superintendents are now getting burned. My latest for @Curbed / @NYMag on how a beloved McKibbin Lofts super is getting kicked out of his home.
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We hear about closures and layoffs in this industry all the time, but this news was a total surprise and devastating to me and so many of my colleagues.
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Very sad news.
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Matthew Sedacca
8 months
UWS Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal — who trumpets not being interested in building more market-rate housing for New Yorkers — has been living in a palatial, rent-stabilized apartment in a landmarked building for 40 years. Solid scoop by @LevineJonathan
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4 years
My last Biography of a Building this year for @nymag : Villa Charlotte Bronte in the Bronx, where neighbors while the hours away yacht-watching along the Hudson, and where a dinner party once determined entry into the co-op
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For @TheCounter @hclaire_brown , @jesstiafu and I spoke with food industry workers who posted "We All Quit" signs on their former employers' doors, and what that led to their collective breaking points this year.
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Matthew Sedacca
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. @NerdJosh and @goldencen chatted with me about @nycnextlevel and the NY fighting game scene.
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Matthew Sedacca
3 years
Seances and talks on biopsychoanalysis in Buddhism were once the norm at the Master, built to honor the theosophist Nicholas Roerich. Today, its studios are home to qi gong practitioners, pianists and a sulcata tortoise. My latest for @NYMag / @Curbed .
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Matthew Sedacca
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For @nymag / @Curbed , I spoke with residents at Olympic Tower, an LLC hive obsessed with anonymity (yet filled with residents happy to dish about their homes). Oh did they have stories to tell—about deposed foreign leaders, quaaludes rings, and more!
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Matthew Sedacca
3 years
im speechless this is a huge honor this is so cool im in the fetal position ahhhh
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asme1963
3 years
Ellies 2021: @NYMag nominated in Leisure Interests category for three “Biography of a Building” articles by @matthewsedacca : “Graham Court: The Gilded Age Rental” #ellies . . .
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Matthew Sedacca
3 years
Haven for skaters and ravers, or anarchical green space? Lately, everyone seems to have an opinion about Washington Square Park, so we spent 48 hrs in this 10-acre village to see what’s going on. W/ @louisgcheslaw @spiccoli @KevinTDugan @jackwdenton
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Matthew Sedacca
3 years
The California State Assembly passed AB 257 yesterday, which would give fast food workers the ability to negotiate with franchisees and corporations for better pay and working conditions affecting an estimated 557,000 individuals. @TheCounter
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5 years
Restaurant growth has boomed in the past decade, and number of jobs in the industry are at an all-time high. But salaries for cooks barely inched along, and head cooks and chefs are dipping out for other industries. My latest for @Eater .
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4 years
Harlem’s Graham Court has evolved over a century from a ritzy Gilded Age apartment complex into a powerhouse of politicians, athletes and music teachers. For a new @NYMag series, I spoke with new and legacy tenants about this storied institution.
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Unions are brewing throughout the coffee shop industry. Employees told me why for @TheCounter .
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Matthew Sedacca
3 years
Honored to receive the Rev. Mychal Judge Heart of New York Award for the @nymag Biography of a Building series. Forever grateful to Katy Schneider, @swerdle and the staff that brought these stories to life!
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NY Press Club
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Congratulations to all of the winners in this year’s @NYPressClub Awards for Journalism. We had a record number of entries this year! Here’s the list of winners:
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Matthew Sedacca
3 years
The best editors in the world @swerdle and Katy "Not on Twitter" Schneider!!!!!!!
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asme1963
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Ellies 2021: @NYMag wins Leisure Interests category for three “Biography of a Building” articles by @matthewsedacca . Congratulations to David Haskell and team! #ellies . . .
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Matthew Sedacca
6 years
@ashleyfeinberg This is straight up hellbroth
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Matthew Sedacca
4 years
One Fifth Avenue: where apartment-buying is sport, lobby renovations could spark revolutions, and the downstairs restaurant has gone from hosting SNL cast ragers to becoming an industry jinx. My latest Building Bio for @nymag / @curbed .
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Matthew Sedacca
5 years
Some personal mews
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Matthew Sedacca
6 years
@HezelAnna That Kraft Singles are a godsend and quintessential to making the best grilled cheeses.
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Matthew Sedacca
6 years
Chemotherapy often robs patients of their sense of taste during their battle against cancer. Several of them told me it was the hardest part of their treatment. My latest for @taste_cooking
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Matthew Sedacca
5 years
No one: Beer companies: How do you do, fellow kids? My latest for @eater
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Matthew Sedacca
3 years
"At one McDonald’s in Santa Monica, 911 calls became so frequent that the city ultimately ordered the restaurant to shut down, before allowing it to open at reduced hours." @jesstiafu on the violence crisis plaguing fast-food workers.
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Matthew Sedacca
3 years
I'm so lucky to be a part of this team that's been doing phenomenal work covering food and agricultural. If you enjoy the work we've been doing, please support our nonprofit newsroom!
@TheCounter
The Counter
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As a nonprofit newsroom, reader support is what allows us to continue doing what we do best: investigating the forces shaping what and how America eats. Give today to help us end our fiscal year strong.
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2 years
Frank Trolly first hit the road as a cabbie when the meter started at just a quarter. 62 years later, the 89-year-old is still motoring around the city six days a week, 12 hours a day, fueled by tea and Queens deli subs.
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Matthew Sedacca
4 years
Pass the cranberry sauce
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Matthew Sedacca
6 years
Indie and alternative artists from around the world mail in their comics and zines to stock the shelves at @desertislandbk . My latest for @NYTMetro
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Matthew Sedacca
3 years
Food banks and pantries have navigated a dizzying array of pandemic-era challenges to help feed their communities this Thanksgiving, from Hail Mary calls for coveted turkeys to paying nearly double for canned green beans. @TheCounter
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Matthew Sedacca
2 years
@LevineJonathan “This stinks” 💀
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Matthew Sedacca
4 years
Co-op boards are going AWOL on residents during the pandemic — and in some cases, inspiring building-wide revolutions. My latest for @Curbed .
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@TIME @ruddyroye @WSJMag ASME Awards 2022: @NYMag wins Best News and Entertainment Story category for “What’s Going On in Washington Square Park?,” photographs by Daniel Arnold and Daniel Galicia . Congratulations David Haskell, Daniel Arnold, Daniel Galicia and team! #ASMEawards
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Matthew Sedacca
2 years
I was overjoyed last year to start my fellowship at @thecounter alongside so many talented journalists who have doggedly reported on the food and agriculture spaces for years. It’s an understatement to say that the publication’s shuttering on May 20 will be a huge loss.
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Matthew Sedacca
3 years
It was so much fun to report this story!
@Curbed
Curbed
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@riceid @DHWendyGoodman @awalkerinLA @Choire @gridwachs @joshdzieza 3. @matthewsedacca wrote an oral history of the still-wild, semi-habitable McKibbin Lofts
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Matthew Sedacca
4 years
It seems like I'm thinking more and more about @jhensonpogue 's Baffler article () and the media-to-Hollywood pipeline these days
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Matthew Sedacca
5 years
At the wine bar Rhodora, nothing that enters its premises will be sent to a landfill, and not a single traditional trash bin can be found on site. My latest for @nytimes .
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Matthew Sedacca
3 years
. @ShawnMcCreesh finally tells us how he really feels: “Today’s media landscape is an artless and unsexy place…a lowveld of SPACs and substacks. Newsletters badly in need of editing lard inboxes, while journalists spend their days flinging mud on Twitter.”
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Matthew Sedacca
6 years
With GrubHub and UberEats expanding, companies like @SlicePizzaApp are helping independent restaurateurs take a bigger bite out of the online food delivery market. My latest for @nytimesbusiness
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Matthew Sedacca
5 years
Now that my blood is more or less 85 percent rum, here are some of the best places to get tiki — and tiki-ish — drinks (including one served in a giant sea dragon pineapple shell that I named Sam).
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Matthew Sedacca
3 years
It's been a big week for Starbucks organizers: Four more stores have filed for union elections in the last week alone, and another store in the Buffalo area has officially unionized. @TheCounter
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Matthew Sedacca
7 years
The prodigal @AlexVadukul wrote his magnum opus on City Island's former musical wunderkind Saul Chandler, who played Carnegie Hall by 13, but now spends his days on boats.
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Matthew Sedacca
8 years
I wrote about dogs and cats on the Internet and their power in political debates
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Matthew Sedacca
4 years
"I’m angry that I was protesting police brutality and fell victim to police brutality," said Balin Brake, who lost an eye after being hit by a tear gas canister.
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Matthew Sedacca
7 years
There are pet anti-vaxxers. I have now (almost) heard it all.
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The Outline
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The wellness trend has hit the pet care industry and it's still bullshit
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Matthew Sedacca
9 years
burritos 4 life
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Matthew Sedacca
5 years
Listicle of cats that look like celebrities, please
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Matthew Sedacca
4 years
As food industry employees continue stocking grocery shelves or serving coffee amid a pandemic, some say companies are wielding the public health crisis as a tool for cracking down on union and worker organizing. My latest for @Eater .
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Matthew Sedacca
7 years
The Refugee Food & Art Festival by @Komeeda will help migrants with job/financial connections. My first for @nytimes
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Matthew Sedacca
5 years
"If I don’t work, we don’t eat.” Grocery and delivery businesses have gone on coronavirus hiring sprees, but for some restaurants workers, switching to retail hasn't been so easy. My latest for @eater .
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Matthew Sedacca
8 years
The classic American/microwaveable snack, aka the Hot Pocket, was invented by Iranian immigrants
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Matthew Sedacca
3 years
Want to live free-rent in a luxury NYC building? Just get a plum gig as the leader of a private school, university or a renowned cultural institution!
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Matthew Sedacca
3 years
“The Post witnessed hundreds of bloodthirsty spectators cheering on five unlicensed matches near the park’s triumphal arch, including one contest that lasted six rounds.” Sounds like a good time tbh!
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Noah Goldberg
3 years
Awesome photos by James Keivom and the Post makes a photo essay that makes WSP look insanely cool!
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Matthew Sedacca
2 years
For those of us jonesing for Great NY Noodletown's legendary scallion noodles, an employee just confirmed that they're reopening tomorrow ( @remytumin with the IG eagle eyes)
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Matthew Sedacca
5 years
As restaurants face the industry’s worst labor crisis in decades, businesses are filling the void via on-demand staffing apps for cooks and oyster shuckers. Will this solve the shortage, or further hinder the field? W/ @yaffebellany
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Matthew Sedacca
5 years
thank you @PAYOLETTER for writing the One True Blog, on the furry hellions we love so much (and my coal-deserving son in the act).
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Matthew Sedacca
7 years
TFW you're late and scarf down a bowl of noodles with chili oil but then realize that every cause has an effect.
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Matthew Sedacca
2 years
NYC drivers are going out on a limb with these license cover-ups.
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Matthew Sedacca
5 years
One bird, two bird, live bird, fried bird. Here's the best fried chicken in all of the city, y'all.
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Matthew Sedacca
5 years
In his latest love letter to New York, @AlexVadukul chronicles the "Irish Forrest Gump," the battle against aging and a final 100-mile run across the Emerald Isle.
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Matthew Sedacca
5 years
What can you do in just 15 minutes? Ignite a fiery brand war resulting in online pandemonium, extremely overworked employees and insatiable hunger for a chicken sandwich. Dive into what went down at Popeyes HQ and across the country. W/ @yaffebellany
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Matthew Sedacca
2 years
Forget Atlantic City: High-rollers have transformed Columbus Park into an open-air casino, where grannies blast cigarette after cigarette while throwing down $1000s a hand without breaking a sweat. W/ @Rich_Calder
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Matthew Sedacca
4 years
“Ms. Lazarus approached her inquiries from a more philosophical level as well, seemingly trying to answer a bigger question: Why exactly do people do what they do for a living during their relatively brief time on earth?”
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Matthew Sedacca
6 years
Fantastic profile of Amar'e Stoudemire and his immersion into the Judaic world by @skestenbaum , who's continuing to rock the Hebrew Israelite beat
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Matthew Sedacca
2 years
“What are they gonna do? Take a train down here and put it back on the train?”
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Matthew Sedacca
6 years
From unions to collective bargaining mediated through Facebook groups, organizing is gaining steam in the food and beverage industries. My latest for @Eater
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Matthew Sedacca
3 years
The Biden administration announced pandemic relief grants of up to $600 program for meatpacking and farm workers, but it could take up to two years for workers to see the money. Story w/ @hclaire_brown
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Matthew Sedacca
3 years
There are a number of incredible stories about workers in food service over on @thecounter today: @TheTinaVasquez on the multigenerational, multiracial coalition of workers organizing in a vehemently anti-worker state.
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Matthew Sedacca
3 years
"Cars now drive past Zoltar blasting music from open windows and drunk friends take turns pushing dollar bills into him. And his words of wisdom, printed on yellow cards, are sputtering out again." @AlexVadukul on how Gem Spa lives on in Bushwick.
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Matthew Sedacca
6 years
How societies cllps
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Matthew Sedacca
2 years
Following an inquiry from The Post, Prince Judaica pulled the late Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky’s pants down from its upcoming auction. “We demand they put the pants back on,” one prospective bidder fumed.
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Matthew Sedacca
7 years
Check out @MazeishLES and its refugee-hosted Displaced Dinners. Here's a preview for @SAVEURMAG :
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Matthew Sedacca
4 years
When Covid hit New York, tourism dried up, but pianist Colin Huggins continued the Sisyphean task of lugging his baby grand to and from Washington Square Park to eke out a living. @AlexVadukul on busking and life when the music stops.
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Matthew Sedacca
2 years
"The event’s parting gift bag, while immense, somehow did not actually include cat food."
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Matthew Sedacca
3 years
Since the start of the pandemic, community fridges have popped up as a mix of social hubs and food distribution centers. Despite pushback and logistical hurdles, organizers hope these fridges will provide avenues for food access in the long-run.
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Matthew Sedacca
2 years
From its inception, the building was marketed as a luxe crash pad for the global elite. There were various nobles and foreign billionaires, tin magnates and socialites, banking tycoons, Lebanese politicos, and even the manager of KISS.
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Matthew Sedacca
4 years
One of the hardest workers I know, and who is going to *crush* it — I'm so proud of you! ❤️
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Matthew Sedacca
2 years
Cam models’ ratings are in: The best dick in the city can be found on Staten Island.
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Matthew Sedacca
6 years
A few hundred wings, various crumpled napkin piles and several Tums later, we have the Best Chicken Wings in New York for y'all
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Matthew Sedacca
4 years
We checked in on New York’s dedicated gym rats, nowadays huffing and puffing through their masks. Story w/ @DSlotnik
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Matthew Sedacca
6 years
I used to spill mustard on my shirt all the time as a kid. I wrote about wearing your food in a more fashionable way for @Eater , thanks to amazing editors @whitneyfilloon and @superdaniela !
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Matthew Sedacca
3 years
RIP to best place for small-child-sized barrels of Utz cheese balls
@chrisecrowley
Chris E. Crowley
3 years
RIP to the Astor Place Kmart, which always felt like a perfect location for a shopping scene gone wrong in a zombie apocalypse movie
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Matthew Sedacca
3 years
"For over two years, Davilla had worked at Wash Supply, making $8.75 an hour at first and then increasing to $11 dollars by the time she was fired; well below New York’s minimum wage of $15-per-hour."
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Matthew Sedacca
4 years
Wait this is the perfect quarantine house
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DEI-on Slanders
4 years
I just discovered the greatest house listing of all time. It starts out very unassuming and modest.
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Despite Covid cases once again skyrocketing across New York City, heads of ER departments say they feel "cautiously optimistic" about handling the coming influx of patients.
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