New York Daily News

Anti-Social and worse at Harlem eatery: $6M suit

- BY VICTORIA BEKIEMPIS

A FORMER server at Harlem hotspot Corner Social was “angrily shoved” by a male co-worker when she told him to stop touching her, a $6 million sexual harassment lawsuit alleges.

Alaya Jordan worked at the New American eatery, on Lenox Ave. at W. 126th St., from about May 2015 to June 2017, her Manhattan Federal Court suit states.

Jordan claims Corner Social’s chef began asking her on dates and about massages, once telling her that he liked “happy endings.”

In February 2017, one of Jordan’s managers “suddenly and violently grabbed (Jordan’s) hair and said, ‘I just wanted to see if it was still long enough to pull on,’ ” the suit, filed Tuesday, charges.

Several months later, a waiter “began frequently touching or rubbing” her back and said, “Why don’t you kiss me?” When she told him to stop, “he would get visibly upset, and once he angrily shoved plaintiff during working hours,” the suit maintains.

A supportive supervisor told top managers and owner Anahi Angelone, who did nothing to help, the suit contends.

Staff at Angelone’s other restaurant, Angel of Harlem, were accused last month of racially profiling several African American patrons, the Daily News previously reported.

Jordan quit Corner Social last June, according to the suit, filed by lawyer Benjamin Dictor.

Angelone could not immediatel­y be reached for comment.

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