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While browsing a 3 day old NYT I came across some actual neighborhood news. Blocks away, places I wouldn't say frequent, but have been a occasional patron of are out of business. The one-time stranglehood that Oven, Wine bar, Blue Pig and the Busychef had on Henry Street is no more.  According to this article they were the target of a scam artist employee who was parading around as owner. I saw the Brooklyn Heights Blog was mentioned in the article good for them. Seems like people onto it pretty much knew the deal but some were not so lucky as credit cards were charged to the tune of some ten thousands. It seems this Kaufman character temporarily pulled one over and has a history of this trailing back to Beantown. This fucker put 50 people out of work. Local musings below.

“There isn’t much out there. It’s going to be so hard for all of us to find work. I am questioning whether I should even put the Wine Bar on my résumé...My biggest fear now is being associated with all of this.” - Farah, employee at Wine bar

The Times calls Chef Jerk “affable.” Didn’t most of us generally get a “sleazeball” feel from him rather than an “affable” one, long before there was any proof of said sleaziness? - Nigel, poster on BHB

They all echo the same thing. Right under our noses too, that bastard.