This Dimes Square hotspot could use some change. A popular see-and-be-seen restaurant in the Manhattan microhub was shut down this week for owing more than $1.3 million in taxes, records show. A bright orange sign was plastered on the door of Kiki’s on Tuesday, announcing it had been seized by the state for failure to.
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This Dimes Square hotspot could use some change. A popular see-and-be-seen restaurant in the Manhattan microhub was shut down this week for owing more than $1.3 million in taxes, records show. A bright orange sign was plastered on the door of Kiki’s on Tuesday, announcing it had been seized by the state for failure to.
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