SHAKE SHACK MANAGER SUES POLICE UNIONS
The Post reports that the manager of the Fulton Hub Shake Shack at the center of last summer’s milkshake “poisoning” scandal has filed a federal defamation lawsuit against the NYPD unions. “In a complaint filed Monday, Marcus Gilliam accuses the Police Benevolent Association and Detectives’ Endowment Association of staining his reputation by falsely accusing him of dosing the shakes of three cops with bleach in June 2020. Gilliam also claims he was arrested without cause and detained for up to six hours, during which time he was questioned by detectives who taunted him ‘about putting bleach in the milkshakes’ — despite them knowing he’d done no such thing.”

THE ROAD TO RESTAURANT RECOVERY
Our own Tracy Nieporent has an editorial about the return of the restaurant industry in Latin Business Today: “Certainly, things are different now. Menus will still be enticing and engaging, but they may also be simpler and more accessible, while offering fewer items. It will take a while for many restaurants to hit their stride, and for their guests to feel fully comfortable dining out again. But restaurants provide an essential service of bringing our communities together.”

JUDGE ALLOWS SOHO REZONING SUIT TO CONTINUE
Crain’s reports that the lawsuit brought by community groups against the city’s Soho and Noho rezoning plan can continue — but so can the plan itself. “Engoron previously denied the community groups’ request to put a temporary restraining order on the rezoning process, and the Department of City Planning certified its rezoning application May 17 to officially kick it off.”

FIDI LANDLORD CASHES IN
The Real Deal has a mini profile on Moses Marx, who owns 225 Broadway, 11 Broadway and 160 Broadway among others, has resigned from his role as chairman of Berkshire Bancorp after making a bunch of cash off the stock of Eastman Kodak, which got a $765 million loan from the feds so the fallen photo giant could provide Covid-19 vaccine ingredients. (Crain’s had the story first.) I include this just so we have a record of the owners of those buildings, but then I have to add: really? is this how things around here work?