New York
She opened a restaurant in New York at the start of the pandemic. Here’s how she survived.
The arrival of the Omicron variant in New York this winter threatened the survival of eating places that have been already battered by the pandemic.
The streets emptied in December as chilly climate set in and concern once more gripped town. Virus case counts have been exploding, and, at one restaurant we adopted for 3 months this winter, Saigon Social, dine-in enterprise fell to a trickle.
Saigon Social, a Vietnamese restaurant on the Decrease East Facet, has solely ever existed in pandemic-era limbo. Its proprietor, Helen Nguyen, opened the restaurant two years in the past to labor shortages, provide chain snarls and sudden shutdowns. She has needed to play each function within the restaurant, all whereas operating across the metropolis to trace down substances, containers and condiments.
“I slept on the restaurant each night time that first month as a result of I used to be so depressed,” Ms. Nguyen stated.
New York is a restaurant metropolis, and Ms. Nguyen has been a rising star in it. She spent years working for the acclaimed chef Daniel Boulud. She has participated within the prestigious Bocuse d’Or cooking contest in France, and has made common TV appearances on the Meals Community and Vice’s Munchies. Saigon Social is her first restaurant on her personal.
However operating a meals enterprise in New York means working on extraordinarily skinny margins, and typically the smallest disruptions might be the distinction between successful acclaim and shutting for good.
This winter, Ms. Nguyen had to determine tips on how to preserve money flowing whereas her eating room was closed and workers examined constructive for the virus. She bartered for checks with alcohol, and reinstated masking guidelines contained in the restaurant. On prime of that, she navigated racial violence in a neighborhood that’s dwelling to a big Asian diaspora.
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Adams’s Former Chief Adviser and Her Son Charged With Corruption
Ingrid Lewis-Martin, who resigned as Mayor Eric Adams’s chief adviser, and her son, Glenn D. Martin II, were charged with taking $100,000 in bribes from two businessmen in a quid-pro-quo scheme.
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We allege that Ingrid Lewis-Martin engaged in a long-running bribery, money laundering and conspiracy scheme by using her position and authority as the chief adviser of — chief adviser to the New York City mayor, the second-highest position in city government — to illegally influence city decisions in exchange for in excess of $100,000 in cash and other benefits for herself and her son, Glenn Martin II. We allege that real estate developers and business owners Raizada “Pinky” Vaid and Mayank Dwivedi paid for access and influence to the tune more than $100,000. Lewis-Martin acted as an on-call consultant for Vaid and Dwivedi, serving at their pleasure to resolve whatever issues they had with D.O.B. on their construction projects, and she did so without regard for security considerations and with utter and complete disregard for D.O.B.’s expertise and the public servants who work there.
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
V.
LUIGI NICHOLAS MANGIONE,
Defendant.
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, ss.:
Original
AUSAS: Dominic A. Gentile,
Jun Xiang, Alexandra Messiter
24 MAG 4375
SEALED COMPLAINT
Violations of
18 U.S.C. §§ 2261A, 2261(b), 924(j), and
924(c)
COUNTY OF OFFENSE:
NEW YORK
GARY W. COBB, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he is a Special Agent with the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, and charges as follows:
COUNT ONE
(Stalking – Travel in Interstate Commerce)
1. From at least in or about November 24, 2024 to in or about December 4, 2024, in
the Southern District of New York and elsewhere, LUIGI NICHOLAS MANGIONE, the
defendant, traveled in interstate commerce with the intent to kill, injure, harass, intimidate, and place
under surveillance with intent to kill, injure, harass, and intimidate another person, and in the
course of, and as a result of, such travel engaged in conduct that placed that person in reasonable
fear of the death of, and serious bodily injury to, that person, and in the course of engaging in such
conduct caused the death of that person, to wit, MANGIONE, traveled from Georgia to New York,
New York for the purpose of stalking and killing Brian Thompson, and while in New York,
MANGIONE stalked and then shot and killed Thompson in the vicinity of West 54th Street and
Sixth Avenue.
(Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2261A(1)(A) and 2261(b)(1).)
COUNT TWO
(Stalking – Use of Interstate Facilities)
2. From at least in or about November 24, 2024 to in or about December 4, 2024, in
the Southern District of New York and elsewhere, LUIGI NICHOLAS MANGIONE, the
defendant, with the intent to kill, injure, harass, intimidate, and place under surveillance with intent
to kill, injure, harass, and intimidate another person, used an electronic communication service and
electronic communication system of interstate commerce, and a facility of interstate or foreign
commerce, to engage in a course of conduct that placed that person in reasonable fear of the death
of and serious bodily injury to that person, and in the course of engaging in such conduct caused
the death of that person, to wit, MANGIONE used a cellphone, interstate wires, interstate
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Luigi Mangione Is Charged With Murder
The first-degree murder charge branded him a terrorist over the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive, Brian Thompson.
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We are here to announce that Luigi Mangione, the defendant, is charged with one count of murder in the first degree and two counts of murder in the second degree, including one count of murder in the second degree as an act of terrorism for the brazen, targeted and premeditated shooting of Brian Thompson, who, as was as you know, was the C.E.O. of UnitedHealthcare. This was a frightening, well-planned, targeted murder that was intended to cause shock and attention and intimidation. It occurred in one of the most bustling parts of our city, threatening the safety of local residents and tourists alike, commuters and businesspeople just starting out on their day.
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