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Zak Kostro

Zak Kostro

Assistant Editor at Whisky Advocate

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Recent Articles

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Noticing your favorite spirit is absent from liquor store and bar shelves? You’re not alone

Global supply chain issues and production delays are contributing to a liquor shortage of sorts across the US
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New York’s bars, restaurants and distillers say they’re suffering f...

“We have not recovered yet and we won’t for a long time,” one distiller told Salon
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For liquor stores, sales surged during the pandemic. What will happ...

Salon spoke with a dozen liquor store owners across America about how the pandemic has permanently altered business
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Ravaged by the pandemic, bars and restaurants face a reckoning — an...

Owners and advocates say it’s time to tackle the industry’s difficult conditions, unequal pay and harassment
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How will bars survive in a post-pandemic world?

COVID-19 brought bars to their knees, but bartenders and owners are hustling to get them back on their feet
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Wary immigrant small biz owners battle rent demon

Successfully running a bodega, travel agency or any small business in the city can require heroic effort. But Josue Guerrero and his family have done just that at Yohan’s Deli & Grocery.
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Their former classmate would become Japan’s next empress

They may not have known it at the time, but P.S. 81 students decades ago attended classes with a future empress.
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Horace Mann junior helps moms fight poverty with hats

Ryan Jonas isn’t your average Horace Mann student. Rather, he’s a dynamo of sorts, an industrious young fellow who started Bronx Built, a nonprofit focused on eradicating poverty. And, he’s teaching other young people about what he calls “social entrepreneurship.”
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Builders are spilling onto sidewalks and streets

A developer overseeing what some critics describe as a rather disruptive construction project has one state lawmaker living nearby quite peeved.
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Cuomo’s MTA revamp nudges Moerdler off transit board

Charles Moerdler’s official days fighting for Bronx commuters’ transit needs have come to an end. He’s no longer on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority board.
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Developer settles claims HHP apartments not accessible

It still seems achingly cryptic, whatever happened at Riverdale Parc.
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Malakai Hart: Black students weren’t treated as equals

Malakai Hart never really felt like he fit in at Ethical Culture Fieldston School.
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Kingsbridge Golden Arches revamps for summer relaunch

The last remaining Big Mac haven in this part of the borough is getting an extensive facelift.
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Protest leads to change at Fieldston

It’s the proverbial turning of a page, sowing seeds for potentially paradigm-shifting change while holding leadership accountable.
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Student sues Fieldston school claiming racial discrimination

Just days after protests rocked its campus, Ethical Culture Fieldston school is heading to court after a senior there filed suit, accusing the prestigious private school of racial discrimination.
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A couple of crusty competitors pursue customers’ pizza preference u...

Some New Yorkers might argue choosing a slice of pizza is kind of like choosing a lover — highly subjective, deliciously simple for some, profoundly complex for others.
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Brust Park stewards seed soil for spring blossoms

Jacqueline Hosford had a vision. A plan.
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Building workers clinch tentative deal, avoid strike

Thousands of Bronx residential workers averted a strike after reaching a tentative contract agreement late Tuesday night.
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Racial controversy roils Fieldston, sparks student lock-in

Simmering racial issues at Ethical Culture Fieldston School reached a breaking point Monday after students occupied a building, locking out administrators.
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Will your favorite food cart get an A?

Savory smells of sizzling onions and marinated meat waft from Rachid Tahzima’s oil-slicked grill inside his Halal Brother cart, parked on a noisy strip of Broadway under the elevated 1 train tracks near West 231st Street.
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Bringing commuter rail to the rest of the Bronx

Trekking to the eastern part of the borough could soon be a whole lot easier, and riders have a couple of Riverdale powerbrokers to thank for it.