The large former space of iconic Union Square caf� the Coffee Shop will shortly be separate into 4 new sell spaces — 3 of that will be indifferent for new restaurants, according to a skill manager.
No leases have been sealed yet, writes Eric Gural, executive handling executive of Newmark Knight Frank, who would not criticism on rumors that Chase Bank is a intensity choice to take over a space. Another source compared with a skill reliable that Chase Bank is in talks to take over a non-restaurant space, yet he also pronounced it is not final.
Brazilian-ish grill Coffee Shop, famous for a select staff and informative gravitas around appearances on shows like Sex and a City, closed progressing this month after scarcely 30 years during a dilemma of 16th Street and Union Square West. It was a explorer when it non-stop in 1990 and became a renouned mark for celebrities, tourists, and locals seeking a place nearby a movement hub, quite since a outrageous neon pointer done it an easy landmark.
Owners pronounced this summer that a grill had to tighten in partial due to high rents, though Gural records that there is still time on a grill lease, contesting that a depart was since of a lease hike.
Number one disciple of aged New York Jeremiah Moss first posted a gossip that Chase Bank competence reinstate Coffee Shop, job it “yet another instance of New York City essence snatching.” Besides a new tenancy, a tipster told him that a Coffee Shop pointer competence be redone to contend “Chase”; Gural did not criticism on this rumor. Incidentally, a reside before Coffee Shop was an tangible coffee shop called Chase, and Coffee Shop got a name from Chase’s neon sign, that it kept.