Danny Meyer closing two NYC restaurants in hotel turned migrant shelter

Two New York Metropolis eateries owned by restaurateur Danny Meyer will shutter this month because the historic lodge they’re housed in clears out to accommodate asylum seekers.

The Redbury Lodge, a landmark lodge in NoMad, started housing migrants earlier this month as town flounders attempting to deal with over 57,000 asylum seekers every night time.

The Union Sq. Hospitality Group — run by Meyer — introduced Friday that Marta and Maialino (vicino), that are situated within the Redbury, may have their final service on August 25, Eater reported.

Whereas a spokesperson initially mentioned that the migrants’ makeshift lodging wouldn’t influence operations at both restaurant, the group issued an announcement Friday sharing information of the change.

“We’re dissatisfied to announce that Marta and Maialino (vicino) will probably be ceasing operations on the Redbury,” the assertion learn.

“As tenants of the Redbury, our two eating places, which occupy the foyer ground, have been eagerly anticipating the lodge’s full post-pandemic reopening. Now, because the Redbury companions with the Metropolis to deal with asylum seekers, it’s develop into clear that the timeline for that reopening has been prolonged indefinitely.”

The assertion continued: “Whereas we admire and respect the Redbury’s determination, the viability of our enterprise depends considerably on hotel-related F&B operations, together with occasion venues and the foyer bar, areas that are actually unavailable for our use.”

“We stay absolutely supportive of the Redbury’s initiative and can proceed advocating for coverage change that expedites work permits for asylum seekers.”

Maialino, a restaurant and wine bar that beforehand operated out of the Gramercy Park Lodge, started doing enterprise out of the Redbury final fall as Maialino (vicino).

The second restaurant, Marta, a pizzeria, opened in 2014 when the Redbury was the Martha Washington Lodge. In 2015 the lodge was purchased for $158 million and renamed the Redbury.

It was not instantly clear whether or not the 2 eating places would reopen in new places.

The unlucky information for New York Metropolis foodies comes as Mayor Eric Adams’ administration struggles to maintain up with the flood of migrants who’ve left the Huge Apple at its breaking level.

Adams announced earlier this month that the migrant crunch is anticipated to value an total whopping $12 billion for the subsequent three years.

A state supply additionally instructed The Publish that taxpayers must shell out $20 million a month — or $10,000 per asylum-seeker — to deal with 2,000 migrants on Randall’s Island.

The latest inflow has spilled out into metropolis streets, together with in Manhattan, the place dozens of migrants have been pressured to sleep on the sidewalks outdoors the Roosevelt Lodge in Midtown when the makeshift consumption middle grew to become full.

In the meantime, Hochul had promised so as to add Floyd Bennett Area, a former army airbase in Brooklyn, to the record of state-funded shelters — however White Home officers refused to sign off on the plan, issuing her a significant blow.