What affordability crisis? New Yorkers line up for hours to pay $12 for grapes and $65 for olive oil at trendy new gourmet grocer Meadow Lane
NY Post
“I’m so hungry and so cold,” a bundled-up young woman told The Post through chattering teeth, as she waited for food in frigid temperatures early Friday morning.
The New Yorker was one of hundreds who’d made the rush hour trek to TriBeCa for sustenance — standing in a long line that stretched back an entire city block.
The eager hordes were awaiting the 11 a.m. opening of Meadow Lane, a hotly-anticipated gourmet grocer from TikTokker Sammy Nussdorf at 355 Greenwich St. — and their eyes were on $15 orders of organic chicken nuggets, $16 helpings of bone broth, and trendy matcha lattes.
Amid an affordability crisis that helped to propel Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani to Mayoral victory and recent anxiety over SNAP benefit cuts, Meadow Lane’s grand debut Friday morning might have seemed like unfortunate timing.
But the buzz online, where many of the 28-year-old Nussdorf’s opening updates have gone viral, and outside the swank new store proved the opposite — appetites for eye-wateringly expensive foods in the Big Apple are bigger than ever.
“I feel like we got a golden ticket!” one excited shopper who snagged a spot at the front of the line exclaimed, referencing Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”‘
