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Bushwick coffee house owner who called Jews ‘greedy infiltrators’ closes shop

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The Jew-bashing owner of a Bushwick coffee house has closed up shop three months after his anti-Semitic rant on social media went viral.

The Coffee Shop, which opened in June 2013, will reopen in the spring “under new management,” according to a sign on the Wilson Ave. java joint’s window.

Owner Michael Avila, 32, served up a steaming controversy last October when he called Jews “greedy infiltrators” bent on destroying the neighborhood.

The Coffee Shop on Wilson Ave. in Bushwick will reopen under new management, according to a sign posted on the java joint's window.
The Coffee Shop on Wilson Ave. in Bushwick will reopen under new management, according to a sign posted on the java joint’s window.

“Bushwick IS rising and progressing, and bettering, but us contributing or just appreciating this rise and over all positive change do not want to be lumped with greedy infiltrators,” he wrote in a Facebook and Instagram post.

The unrelenting Bushwick man later told the Daily News he chose his words poorly but defended his message as “the truth.”

The Coffee Shop on Wilson Ave. in Bushwick closed three months after the owner posted a Jew-bashing rant on social media.
The Coffee Shop on Wilson Ave. in Bushwick closed three months after the owner posted a Jew-bashing rant on social media.

Avila scrapped his Facebook and Instagram accounts shortly after his fiery remarks went viral and critics blasted him in comments as a bigot and an anti-Semite.

The comments had “deeply offended the Jewish community as well as the entire borough of Brooklyn,” according to the Anti-Defamation League, which urged Avila to apologize.

Avila and his landlord couldn’t be reached for comment Wednesday.

dmmurphy@nydailynews.com