Extra Extra: A Brooklyn restaurant went on 'Kitchen Nightmares' looking for a boost. It backfired.

July 2, 2024, 3:01 p.m.

Because Gordon Ramsay is in the business of starting drama, not helping your restaurant, here are your afternoon links: Good gas station halal food, Midtown IKEA, JFK was a misogynist and more.

a painting of Gordon Ramsay

Good Tuesday afternoon in New York City, where Rudy Giuliani has been disbarred.

Here's what else is happening:

  • This Bushwick gas station has good halal food.
  • Midtown is getting an IKEA.
  • The South Brooklyn Foundry, a Bay Ridge restaurant that struggled coming out of COVID, went on Gordon Ramsay's "Kitchen Nightmares" show in search of a boost — but the drama that Ramsay (no relation to me) provoked between the restaurant's co-founders wound up torpedoing the business.
  • Shaggy is performing at Coney Island on July 7th as part of the 25th anniversary celebration for reggae collective Federation Sound.
  • NPR's guide to the etiquette of splitting the bill isn't wrong, but it doesn't mention the bliss of just plunking down a generous wad of cash and then not thinking about it any further.
  • There's no cease-fire in sight for the fried chicken sandwich wars.
  • A new book out today called "Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed," tells the story of how horribly JFK and his brothers treated women.
  • And finally, uncalled for: