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1 day agoCafe Gitane Was 'a Vanguard of Cool.' Now Employees Say They Can't Get Paid
In its 1990s heyday, Cafe Gitane was an impossibly hip place where it wasn't uncommon to run into David Bowie or Helena Christensen during brunch. Opened by Luc Lévy, a former cabdriver from Paris by way of Casablanca, the Nolita cafeteria remained a regular stop for celebrities - sightings of Michelle Williams and Spike Jonze were reported into the 2010s - as well as, as this magazine once put it, "other people with lots of free time to steal glances at each other."
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