If you’ve read a story in New York magazine in the past year or two and thought to yourself, Who is this boomer whisperer who gets aging power-mongers to open up?, you were probably reading one of Shawn McCreesh’s dispatches, which cover everything from the Met Gala to modest book parties in “bad food” restaurants. Where did he cut his teeth, you ask? Well, as Pulitzer Prize winner Maureen Dowd’s “clerk” at The New York Times.
Dimes Square got its name from Dimes, and Dimes got its name from Sabrina De Sousa, who opened her restaurant on Chinatown’s Canal Street in 2013, long before the area’s heyday. These days, De Sousa and her business partner Sophie Helsby serve juices, coffee, and grain bowls to artists, writers, actors, and people pretending to be those things.
