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After a building sale threatened its storefront, May Carroll’s The Moss & Green reopens in Williamsburg Nov. 30 with a matcha café

The GoFundMe that neighbor Rachel Swanson started for The Moss & Green in 2025 had raised $2,901 of its $50,000 goal as of Nov. 6. The new flagship at 169 North 9th Street will serve Uji matcha and warabi mochi drinks.

Three images: a smiling woman in denim overalls and a pale cap holding a tall potted plant on the sidewalk outside a shop with lit shelves, beside a sandwich board reading The Moss & Green with a partly hidden closed sign; a woman in a gray tweed cap and denim jacket looking up in an open doorway beside a hanging vine, with green foliage behind her; a GoFundMe web page reading $2,901 raised of $50K and This is an SOS from the neighbors of The Moss & Green, with They are facing sudden eviction due to the selling of the building marked in pink.

After a building sale threatened its storefront, May Carroll’s The Moss & Green reopens in Williamsburg Nov. 30 with a matcha café

The GoFundMe that neighbor Rachel Swanson started for The Moss & Green in 2025 had raised $2,901 of its $50,000 goal as of Nov. 6. The new flagship at 169 North 9th Street will serve Uji matcha and warabi mochi drinks.

After a building sale threatened its storefront, May Carroll’s The Moss & Green reopens in Williamsburg Nov. 30 with a matcha café
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The Moss & Green, the Williamsburg plant shop and botanical design studio, opens its new flagship Monday, November 30, at 169 North 9th Street, bringing a Japanese matcha café into the botanical studio.

The café will serve matcha from Uji, Kyoto, alongside original drinks made with warabi mochi, a traditional Japanese confection. The botanical studio carries handcrafted kokedama and curated plants, and the space is furnished with Kyoto and Western antiques, according to the shop’s publicist.

The menu includes several signature drinks, PatchBushwick reported: the Moss Garden, a matcha latte with kuromitsu warabi mochi; the Kyoto Temple, a hojicha latte with kuromitsu hojicha warabi mochi; After The Rain, Earl Grey tea with matcha and Earl Grey warabi mochi; and the Ume Summer Tonic, sencha tea with Japanese pickled plum and tonic water.

Unlike the chewy, rice-based mochi familiar to many Americans, warabi mochi is made from bracken fern starch and has…

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