In this weekly column, Eater documents the city’s permanent restaurant and bar closures. If a restaurant or bar has closed in your neighborhood, let us know at [email protected].
November 22
Crown Heights: Super Power, known for its tropical cocktails, shuttered in Brooklyn earlier this month. It has been marked permanently closed on Google. 722 Nostrand Avenue, at Prospect Place
East Village: Stuffed Ice Cream is done on St. Marks, after closing on October 27; the team first opened at this location in 2017, before rolling out an outpost in Bensonhurst. 139 First Avenue, between St. Marks Place and East Ninth Street
Greenpoint: Greenpoint Beer and Ale Co. closed earlier this month after a decade in business. 1150 Manhattan Avenue, at Ash Street
Greenwich Village: The 40-year-old icon Gotham Bar and Grill has shuttered again — this time for good. Earlier this year, it was the victim of a cyberattack in which it lost $45,000. “The restaurant could not claw back from the theft,” owner Cassandra Csencsitz said of the decision not to reopen. “The goal was to go back to our investors to reopen this fall, and time just kept going by until it became clear we could not reopen this fall or for the holidays. It is over,” she told writer Andrea Strong. This is the second permanent shutter since 2020, with Gotham closing permanently the first round in 2020 — after 36 years — before reopening in 2021. In 2019, Victoria Blamey took over the kitchen from longtime chef Alfred Portale. Chef Ron Paprocki, a former Gotham pastry chef, most recently led the kitchen. 12 E. 12th Street, at University Place
Lower East Side: Originally called BabyCakes, Erin McKenna’s Bakery — known for its vegan and gluten-free baked goods, in particular cupcakes — closed after nearly 20 years. Outposts at DisneyWorld and in Los Angeles both remain open. 248 Broome Street, near Orchard Street
Ridgewood: Beer spot Craft Culture has closed after seven years in Queens. 59-04 Myrtle Avenue, near Forest Avenue
Williamsburg: Freehold, a longtime bar and co-working space in Williamsburg, shuttered on November 17. It first opened in 2014 as a cafe, before adding on nighttime service the following year. Owner Brice Jones told Crain’s New York Business that their rent went from $17,000 in their first year to $75,000 in 2024. 45 S. Third Street, at Wythe Avenue
Williamsburg: Oxkale, a short-lived salad bowl spot from the Caribbean restaurant Kokomo down the street had been closed for months, with a spokesperson insisting it was temporary. Greenpointers reported this week that in fact, the Oxkale concept is done, and the team has flipped it to a wine bar with a new name: the Ox. 52 N. 11th Street, near Kent Avenue
November 1
Cobble Hill: An outpost of Mimi Cheng’s Dumplings has closed. The location was there for about a year. 224 Atlantic Avenue, at Court Street
East Village: The churn continues on St. Marks Place: Chinese skewer spot A-Roll Bar and Grill has closed after less than a year. 5 St. Marks Place, at Third Avenue
Flatiron: After 38 years, Greek mainstay Periyali has closed. “This decision was not made lightly, and it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye,” the restaurant wrote on its website. The place that “honored Greek cuisine with a fine-dining setting” was “a revelation” wrote Eater critic Robert Sietsema. William Grimes in Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York cited the restaurant as the first to introduce octopus to mainstream American restaurants. 35 West 20th Street, near Sixth Avenue
Greenpoint: The longtime Italian restaurant Casanova has apparently closed; the restaurant and pizzeria have served the neighborhood for decades. The standalone spot had been listed for sale for $1.6 million. 338 McGuinness Boulevard, at Green Street
Greenpoint: Bakery and cafe 7 Grain Army closed on October 27; the gluten-free spot tried to renegotiate an expensive lease, they told Greenpointers, and also started a GoFundMe to raise money for wholesale and mail-orders. Co-owner Matthew Tilden previously ran Scratchbread in Bed-Stuy. 88 Roebling Street, at North Seventh Street
Midtown: Mah-Ze-Dahr has closed inside the Hugh food hall, with two locations remaining in Manhattan. The bakery announced the shutter on Instagram. 601 Lexington Avenue, at East 54th Street
Midtown: Bice Cucina has shuttered, with a notice on the door that the restaurant has been seized for nonpayment of New York State taxes. The brand started in Milan; first opened in New York in the 1980s, and moved to this location in 2018, after a 30-year run at its location around the corner, which shuttered in 2014. 2 W. 55th Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues
Tribeca: The 50-year-old lunch counter, Westside Coffee Shop has shuttered; it fed the neighborhood dishes like pernil, rice and black beans, or plantains and a salad. Grub Street reported it’s reopening in Ozone Park next year. 323 Church Street, at Lispenard Street
Upper East Side: An uptown location of fast-casual Migrant Kitchen has closed after debuting in 2021. The spot announced the shutter on its Instagram. Locations in Central Park and the Upper West Side remain open. 1433 First Avenue between 74th and 75th streets
Upper West Side: Cafe Lalo, a dessert bar and cafe that was featured in Nora Ephron’s film You’ve Got Mail has officially vacated its storefront after a legal battle that’s left the business closed since 2020. 201 W. 83rd Street, at Amsterdam Avenue
West Village: This location of the sit-down veg-leaning restaurant the Butcher’s Daughter is reported closed on Yelp. Locations in Nolita and Williamsburg are reportedly still open. 581 Hudson Street, at Bank Street
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