Sunday, June 14, 2015

A Brooklyn Deli Was So Outraged By A Crazy Rent Hike It "Gentrified" Its Prices

The latest battle over skyrocketing urban rent has produced “artisan roach bombs,” 5 Hour “Slow Roasted” Energy drinks, and “grass feed” tuna.




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Jesse's Deli, in Brooklyn's Boerum Hill neighborhood, has been paying $4,000 a month in rent for the last five years, owner Mohamad Itayim told BuzzFeed News Saturday. This year, however, the store's landlord decided the raise the rent to $10,000 a month.


“That's impossible to pay,” Itayim said.






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