{"id":319355,"date":"2026-08-12T09:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/319355\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T09:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:32:18","slug":"nyc-reddit-user-becomes-silent-superman-for-greenpoints-local-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/319355\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Reddit User Becomes Silent Superman for Greenpoint\u2019s Local Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few weeks ago, customers began pouring into Greenpoint staple Star Deli (176 Nassau Ave.) after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DZWjOV7OVWU\/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a series of videos<\/a> posted by Instagram creator @pov.outside unexpectedly went viral, amassing more than 4 million views. Google Reviews multiplied overnight and strangers from around the world donated more than $6,000 to repair the deli\u2019s broken freezer.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the sudden surge was Shuayb Qureshi, a software engineer at Meta by trade and champion of neighborhood businesses by choice.\u2026<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A few weeks ago, customers began pouring into Greenpoint staple Star Deli (176 Nassau Ave.) after a series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[120418,1418,2422,120419,9,56,63,65,64,120420,120421,120422,120423],"class_list":["post-319355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-pov-outside","tag-featured-article","tag-greenpoint","tag-mr-z","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-salvatore-sinnona","tag-shuayb-qureshi","tag-star-deli","tag-tonys-pizzeria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319355","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=319355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}