New York Rep. Dan Goldman said Monday that it was \u201csad\u201d a Brooklyn coffee shop publicly claimed it refused to serve him because of his support for Israel, after the business posted and later deleted a message mocking the congressman on social media.<\/p>\n
The dispute centered on Poetica, a cafe in Williamsburg, which announced online that Goldman had visited the shop during a Democratic primary campaign stop.<\/p>\n
In the deleted post, the cafe wrote: \u201cHey Congressman Dan Goldman, we see that you stopped by our shop today for a coffee. Do you see how it\u00a0doesn\u2019t\u00a0taste like genocide juice? Or are you still having\u00a0a hard time\u00a0telling the difference?\u201d<\/p>\n
The business also said it had issued Goldman a refund that he had not requested and added: \u201cWe don\u2019t need your money (it\u2019s probably coming from AIPAC anyways,\u201d referring to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n
Goldman addressed the incident during an appearance on CNN with Laura Coates, describing what he said was a friendly encounter with a barista before the social media post appeared.<\/p>\n
According to Goldman, he entered the cafe because his seven-year-old daughter needed\u00a0touse\u00a0the restroom while they were in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had such a nice interaction with the barista in the coffee shop,\u201d Goldman said.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0congressman\u00a0said the employee, who was wearing a hijab, allowed his daughter to use the bathroom and treated them kindly.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was wearing a hijab, I didn\u2019t know her, but she couldn\u2019t have been nicer and allowed my daughter to go use the bathroom, and I honestly was so grateful for her kindness that I felt like I should buy a coffee, and so I did, and I gave her a large tip.\u201d<\/p>\n
Goldman said he viewed the episode as indicative of broader political divisions.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a reflection, I think, of a sad state of affairs that without knowing me, we could have had such a nice interaction,\u201d Goldman continued.<\/p>\n
The controversy\u00a0emerged\u00a0one day before Goldman faced a Democratic primary challenge from former New York City Comptroller Brad Lander. Lander has received backing from Mayor Zohran Mamdani and has highlighted Goldman\u2019s\u00a0previous\u00a0support from AIPAC, whose role in Democratic primaries has drawn criticism from some progressive activists and candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Rep. Dan Goldman said Monday that it was \u201csad\u201d a Brooklyn coffee shop publicly claimed it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-275625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275625","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=275625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}