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Swallow Cafe

Brooklyn coffee shop · 3+ locations · Brooklyn: Bushwick, Williamsburg, Cobble Hill

Swallow's three Brooklyn coffee counters look like separate shops, but state filings name the same chief executive for the companies behind them. Its Cobble Hill café opened in 2015 inside Tripoli, a decades-old Lebanese restaurant that stayed open and still shares the room.

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Swallow is a three-café Brooklyn business with no outside investor on record, and state filings name the same chief executive, Maher Saleh, for both companies behind it. No safety inspections or federal employment cases are on record, though it publishes nothing on pay or environmental impact. It answers to its local owner, not to a fund or a parent company.

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Company data last updated September 2026

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