{"id":274900,"date":"2026-06-23T04:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T04:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/274900\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T04:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T04:55:09","slug":"us-doj-probing-coffee-shop-after-jewish-lawmaker-banned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/274900\/","title":{"rendered":"US DOJ probing coffee shop after Jewish lawmaker banned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;The Civil Rights Division has opened an investigation and will bring an enforcement action if warranted,&#8221; Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said on X\/Twitter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;Federal law prohibits public accommodations such as coffee shops from discriminating against patrons based on their race, religion, or national origin,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Goldman, a Democrat, visited Poetica Coffee in Williamsburg, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-897715\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn<\/a>, outside his district, with his 7-year-old daughter on Sunday, The New York Times reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;We see that you stopped by our shop today for a coffee,&#8221; Poetica Coffee said on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Goldman said he went there so his daughter could use the restroom and that he bought a coffee to thank staff for allowing her to do so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;We don&#8217;t serve racists, fascists, homophobes, genocide enablers or anyone in between,&#8221; Poetica Coffee said. &#8220;Too bad we didn&#8217;t recognize you right away, or we would have turned you away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The coffee shop said it issued a refund. &#8220;Don&#8217;t ever come to Poetica,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Its post was no longer visible on Monday. The Instagram account seems to have been deactivated.<\/p>\n<p>Goldman is endorsed by New York Governor Kathy Hochul and is facing off in a June 23 primary against Brad Lander, the former New York City comptroller backed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-899945\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a>. Both Lander and Goldman are Jewish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Civil Rights Division has opened an investigation and will bring an enforcement action if warranted,&#8221; Assistant Attorney&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3862,5353,79,9,24,55,54,56,27986],"class_list":["post-274900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-antisemitism","tag-coffee","tag-diaspora","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-us-department-of-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}