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THE TALK OF the neighborhood is on the front page of today’s New York Times. It’s the fallout from a lawsuit filed by the crypto pioneer founder of the Kraken against the residents of 2500 Steiner, the tower at the corner of 2500 Steiner Street, who don’t want him as their neighbor.
The fight, reported earlier in the week by the Chron (link posted on our Facebook page) gets even richer in the Times — which adds the detail that the unit the Trump backer is in escrow to buy is the ninth floor, now owned by no less than the Democratic lieutenant governor of the state, Eleni Kounalakis.
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NEW YORK TIMES: “When a pro-Trump crypto king came knocking, San Francisco elites locked the door“
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