A swanky new grocer in downtown Manhattan has been getting death threats over its stratospheric prices – even as the shop was forced to briefly shutter this week after its shelves were emptied by a customer frenzy, The Post has learned.
Meadow Lane, a posh store in Tribeca at 355 Greenwich St., has drawn such massive crowds since it opened last Friday that it was forced to impose quotas on goods. Those include $625 tins of Siberian caviar, $65 bottles of extra virgin olive oil, $74 containers of matcha powder and gluten-free chicken nuggets priced at $15 per half dozen.
“We can’t keep up,” founder Sammy Nussdorf, known online as “Brokeback Contessa,” told Side Dish. “We outperformed all of our projections.”
Meanwhile, the 28-year-old New Yorker said he’s also been receiving death threats and hate – with online loons enraged by his prices as socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has relentlessly attacked the rich…