The West Village Girls are traveling the mile to Tribeca … for a $12 chicken salad from Meadow Lane, New York City’s newest gourmet grocery store, which opened its doors this past Friday. Many of them have been following along on TikTok since last summer, when Meadow Lane founder Sammy Nussdorf, under the handle Brokeback Contessa, started teasing his new venture by documenting the exhaustive process from start to finish, from recipe-testing videos (the chicken salad is zhuzhed up with horseradish and leeks) to candid confessions about monthslong renovation delays and his issue securing construction permits.

Nussdorf once described a Meadow Lane business meeting as “unhinged, disappointing, and expensive” — a specific brand of chaos that translates to TikTok-algorithm gold. But his co

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