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2020
FAIRWAY’S FUTURE LOOKS A LITTLE BRIGHTER
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ShopRite owners plan to buy five Manhattan locations as company files Chapter 11 Council Member Ben Kallos at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Auditorium on Sunday, Jan. 26. Photo: Emily Higginbotham
TURNING OUT FOR KALLOS COMMUNITY
Schumer, Maloney and Brewer appear at the council member’s State of the District speech BY EMILY HIGGINBOTHAM
Council Member Ben Kallos did not talk about his campaign to become Manhattan’s next borough president at his State of the District speech on the Upper East Side Sunday afternoon, but his annual address came with all of the trappings of a carefully crafted political rally. The event opened with a performance from P.S. 59’s choir in front of about 85
BY EMILY HIGGINBOTHAM
Last week was a rocky one for the Fairway faithful. After rumors circulated that the beloved New York grocer could shut its doors forever, a report from the New York Post seemed to confirm customers’ worst fear: Fairway Market would be
closing and liquidating all of its stores. But that report was quickly disputed by Fairway, which put out a statement that it has no plans to file Chapter 7 bankruptcy and close all of its stores. The reality of Fairway’s fate was revealed Thursday when the market filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy and announced it would sell its five Manhattan locations — the Upper West Side flagship, Upper East Side, Harlem, Chelsea and Kips Bay — and its distribu-
tion center for approximately $70 million to Village Super Market, Inc., the parent company of ShopRite. “After careful consideration of all alternatives, we have concluded that a Courtsupervised sale process is the best way to meet our objectives of preserving as many jobs as possible, maximizing value for our stakeholders, and positioning Fairway for long term success under new ownership,” said Abel Porter,
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people in the Memorial Sloan Kettering Auditorium and closed with a “Bagels with Ben” meet and greet. Kallos even took a page out of Senator Elizabeth Warren’s playbook and invited attendees to form a “selfie line,” which has become a signature aspect of the presidential candidate’s events on the campaign trail. But most notable were the big names that showed up to vouch for the council member’s bona fides. Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Rep. Carolyn Maloney and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
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has seen a surge Five years in, NYC and uctuating in cyclist deaths – and motorist numbers of pedestrian fatalities BY EMILY HIGGINBOTHAM
year that saw 299 In 2014, after a traffic-related incipeople killed in Mayor Bill de Bladents in the city, eliminate all traffic sio set out to
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