“I, for one had no Idea. Thank you for clarifying. Now we know the that the Meseorah YO is referring to is ish m’pi ish m’pi Avi Weiss u’ bait dino.”
100%. I’m trying to avoid names, but Avi Weiss has a well-known side-kick (particularly in creating pasul gerim). He’s from that shul.
For someone to take the mesorah that doesn’t hold like Rashi for reshus harabim/eruvim, was historically more machmir with glatt, was historically more machmir with waiting between meat and dairy, doesn’t mix fish and dairy, says birkas kohanim daily, (the list goes on) and claim that it’s better because it’s “more meikel,” there’s a good chance they’ve been influenced by that Manhattan community (which, by the way, does none of these things to my knowledge). Baruch Hashem, it’s a limited trend, but I refer to it as “Neo-Sphardic,” because their relationship with minhag Sphard is like that of Neo-Chassidim with Chassidus: they take what’s fun and disregard the rest.