Tragedy has struck Central Park’s Loeb Boathouse yet again. After closing for roughly five months amid the pandemic from October 2020 to March 2021, the treasured restaurant by the Ramble is now calling it quits for good on October 16 “due to rising labor and costs of goods,” according to a filing with the New York State Department of Labor Office. Once again, all 163 employees will be laid off.
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“It is our intention to engage a future operator as soon as possible,” said a New York City Department of Parks & Recreation rep in a statement to ILTUWS. “We are working in good faith with the current operator in an effort to accommodate those individuals who have an event already scheduled at the Boathouse.”
Representing the 163 newly out of work employees is the Hotel Trades Council. In a statement to Patch, a union spokesperson from the council said they were “very disappointed” with Boathouse owner Dean Poll for closing while they “make sure [employees] are protected and taken care of in terms of benefits and severance.”
The Boathouse — which features a restaurant, café and events space — first opened in 1954. It’s become iconic as the launch point for rowboat and gondola rides while being a popular destination for wedding proposals, family events and legendary film and TV scenes. A classic scene from Season Three of Sex and the City, when Carrie goes on a date with Mr. Big, was filmed at the Loeb — and Meg Ryan’s character in 1989 rom-com When Harry Met Sally, Sally Albright, also visits the Boathouse for lunch with her friends.
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Named after German immigrant Carl M. Loeb after he made a generous contribution to build the facility, the Boathouse got a roughly $750,000 renovation in 1983, which included the addition of the glassed-in terrace so the Boathouse could be used in the winter months. The sliding glass doors are a beautiful touch to open up the space in the warmer months.
Once again, it’ll feel like there’s a hole in the heart of Central Park when the Loeb shuts down this October.
I feel a sense of loss since the Loeb Boathouse was a great destination for lunch. The take out windows served good food and the prices were reasonable. The outdoor seats were spacious and the variety of customers was great for people watching. I also discovered a great spot for staying warm on a sunny Fall day by sitting in the inside courtyard. I hope another restaurant takes over the space.
Re: “I hope another restaurant takes over the space.”
Yes, that may well be what will happen. I hope so too.
Re: “the treasured restaurant by the Ramble is now calling it quits for good on October 16 “due to rising labor and costs of goods”
Another unfortunate victim of Biden’s disastrous presidency and Liberal politics over all. Very sad. With just over two years to go before Biden-Harris is out, will any businesses be left standing?
Indeed, I agree. How dare those employees demand a living wage? They should live in cardboard boxes and eat from food pantries. They should expect no more than that, just as I should expect my overpriced pasta to hit my table at just the right time. The nerve of these peons. You really just can’t get good help anymore, as no one knows their place.
Indeed, I agree. How dare those employees demand a living wage? They should live in cardboard boxes and eat from food pantries. They should expect no more than that, just as I should expect my overpriced pasta to hit my table at just the right time. The nerve of these peons. You really just can’t get good help anymore, as no one knows their place! It’s a travesty.
So, as a result of Liberal anti-business politics, along with Biden high inflation, the restaurant being forced to close, these workers are somehow better off now?
You really think 1400 dollars given out a year ago to some families is driving this inflation? It’s the same all over the world.
The $1400 “Stimulus” payments given out to darn near everyone was but one small piece of it. Biden’s relentless attacks on OUR (the United States) oil industry is the primary reason for the record setting high inflation we are suffering today. Meanwhile, he and other inept/incompetent leaders continue making Putin and other such evil players on the world stage richer and richer by continuing to buy oil from them. He actually “fist bumped” and begged the Saudi king to increase the oil supply, to no avail.
Other devastating things the Democrats have done to profoundly affect businesses is their severe Covid restrictions and soft-on-crime policies. Many businesses have either closed up shop completely, or were forced to relocate as a result of these lunatic LIBERAL policies.
Or you could get a clue for once and realize it’s the GOP that destroys everything, EVERY time. History doesn’t lie. The US is in a decent position vs most other countries, having snapped out of a PATHETICALLY MANAGED pandemic, by, you guessed it, the incompetent do-nothing GOP. Look at the data and get off Faux News. Or Just look at the TX energy grid for how ridiculous they are when they try to “manage” something. Hahaha.
Norwegian’s basic hourly rate at McDonalds is USD $22, plus benefits. Pretty much all jobs are paid a living wage, education up to its highest forms is free, there’s a national health care system, generous unemployment insurance. Sure taxes are higher, but still less than we we citizens pay out of pocket here in ‘Murica. Seems you are the one who is out of touch, or just plain selfish and insensitive. Enjoy your privileged life while the people who wait on you suffer.
Norway I meant to write.
Well, if its so ideal a place to live…….Bon Voyage!
Frankly, “Tom C,” your attempt to blame President Biden and his administration for the closing of the Loeb Boat House makes you look petty, foolish, and disconnected from reality.
As you may remember, a certain orange excrement smear previously pretending to be president reacted to the pandemic with deliberate, sadistic, and psychopathic lies about the pandemic. The orange monster fanned the flames of exponential spread of the virus in the U.S. by holding mass rallies, boasting that they were maskless and without social distancing. The result of that was that the U.S. has the highest per capita rate of COVID deaths among developed nations.
Nations that had saner leadership at the onset of the pandemic fared better in terms of health outcomes and economic outcomes, than did the United States. They include Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and South Korea.
What led to the tragic pandemic outcome for the U.S., was that Rump and Rethuglturds in Congress cut every government program they could to the bone. That included decimating and/or eliminating our pandemic prevention and preparedness programs.
Not only has President Biden had to clean up from Rump’s catastrophic and deadly mess, but Rethugliturds in Congress continue to act against the good of the people.
For example, just recently, the House passed anti-price-gouging legislation, that would credibly have eased inflation, but Senate Rethugliturds killed the proposed law.
The economy is in better shape today than it was at the end of Rump’s reign of terror, and that is thanks to President Biden’s best efforts in the face of Rethugliturds’ nihilistic obstruction. Moreover, Rethugliturds do not have one credible idea for alleviating inflation. The one notion they push is that if oil companies were completely unregulated within the U.S., this would somehow be a boon to the economy and to consumers. So what voters are supposed to believe is that the same “strike down all regulations” that left us unprepared in the pandemic would serve us well at a time when the effects of climate change are more evident than ever.
Re: “at a time when the effects of climate change are more evident than ever.”
LOL!! Thanks, I needed a laugh today!
Lenin referred to easily manipulated dopes like you as “Communism’s Useful Idiots”. Alleged man-made global warming is nothing more than a scheme to bring about a one-world socialist/Marxist government. What is more evident than ever is that this movement is as strong today as it’s ever been, if not stronger.
PROFILE: SUSAN ROSENBERG
* Involved with several terrorist groups in 1970s and early 1980s, including the Black Liberation Army, the Weather Underground, and The Family.
* Sentenced in 1984 to a 58-year prison term for the possession of more than 700 pounds of explosives and a stockpile of illicit weapons.
* Indicted for driving the getaway car in the October 1981 robbery of a Brinks armored car carrying $1.6 million, a robbery in which two policemen and an armed guard were murdered.
* After having served 16 years of her 58-year sentence, she was pardoned by President Clinton in January 2001, just days before Clinton left office.
* Was hired by New York’s Hamilton College to teach a course in January 2005.
Discoverthenetworks (dot) org
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“She [Susan Rosenberg] had also been sought as an accomplice in the 1979 prison escape of [cop killer] Assata Shakur [aka Joanne Chesimard].[1]”
–Wikipedia
ERIC MANN, Part 1 of 2
“[Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse] Cullors, 36, was the protégé of Eric Mann, former agitator of the Weather Underground [revolutionary communist] domestic terror organization”
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Black Lives Matter co-founder describes herself as ‘trained Marxist’
by Yaron Steinbuch, New York Post, June 25, 2020
Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors said in a newly surfaced video from 2015 that she and her fellow organizers are “trained Marxists” – making clear their movement’s ideological foundation, according to a report.
Cullors, 36, was the protégé of Eric Mann, former agitator of the Weather Underground domestic terror organization, and spent years absorbing the Marxist-Leninist ideology that shaped her worldview, Breitbart News reported.
“The first thing, I think, is that we actually do have an ideological frame. Myself and Alicia in particular are trained organizers,” she said, referring to BLM co-founder Alicia Garza. “We are trained Marxists. …”
Part 2 of 2, ERIC MANN
“Mann was elected to SDS [Students for a Democratic Society] national committee in 1968.[18]
He told the Associated Press that he believed in “continuous resistance” against “institutions and policies of corporate capitalism” and that SDS chapters transition from campus protests groups to community groups that would guide students as a “de facto government.”[19]
When SDS splintered into three groups in 1969, Mann, then a leader in the SDS faction, the Weathermen (Weather Underground), adopted the Revolutionary Youth Movement’s belief that violent “direct action,” a euphemism for terrorism, should be used as a tactic to dismantle the group’s perceived power centers of “US imperialism”.[20]
* Mann and 20 others were arrested in September 1969 for participation in a direct action against the Harvard Center for International Affairs, which the Revolutionary Youth Movement saw as a university-sponsored institution for counter-insurgency.[14] [21]
* Mann and 24 other Weathermen were charged with conspiracy to commit murder after two bullets were fired through a window of the police headquarters on November 8, 1969.
* Mann surrendered to the police on four counts stemming from the November 8 incident: conspiracy to commit murder, assault with intent to commit murder, promotion of anarchy, and threatening.[22]
* Mann was sentenced to two years in prison of which he spent 18 months in Billerica, Deer Island, and Concord State Prison …”
“Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,” he [Obama pal and associate, Bill Ayers] writes (although he concedes it was really a group effort).
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“As a gesture of solidarity, the Vietnamese who [Bernardine] Dohrn met in Budapest presented her with a ring made from an American aircraft shot down over North Vietnam.
Bill Ayers would receive a similar ring while meeting with Vietnamese communists in Toronto. He later recalled being so moved by the gesture that he ‘left the room to cry.’
–American Thinker, September 16, 2008
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“They’re certainly friendly”
–quote from ‘Obama’s chief strategist (and reigning expert on Chicago’s political tribes), David Axelrod,’ on the Bill Ayers, Obama relationship.
–Politico
June 2020…
Black Lives Matter [New York City] leader states if US ‘doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system’
“[Hawk] Newsome told the [Fox News] host, “if this country doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it. All right?
And I could be speaking … figuratively. I could be speaking literally.
It’s a matter of interpretation. …”
—Victor Garcia | Fox News | June 24, 2020
Here’s potential PRESIDENT Kamala Harris speaking out on the months and months of communist-led (Antifa, “Black Lives Matter”, *RCP) rioting, looting, arson, attacks on government facilities and police, total burning down of a police precinct…
“They’re not going to stop,” she said. …
“This is a movement, I’m telling you, they’re not going to stop, and everyone beware because they’re not going to stop before Election Day in November, and they’re not going to stop after Election Day”.
“And everyone should take note of that, on both levels, that they’re not going to let up, and they should not, and we should not.
”… a longer version of the exchange posted by the ‘Late Show’ shows Harris saying that the protests continuing is “critically important” to achieve change. …”
(* RCP = Revolutionary Communist Party)
From RealClearPolitics – October 8, 2008 …
[excerpt]
The records of the administration of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), released last week [Oct 2008] by the University of Illinois, show that the [Bill] Ayers-Obama connection was, in fact, an intimate collaboration and that it led to the only executive or administrative experience in Obama’s life.
After Walter Annenberg’s foundation offered several hundred million dollars to American public schools in the mid-’90s, William Ayers applied for $50 million for Chicago.
The purpose of his application was to secure funds to “raise political consciousness” in Chicago’s public schools.
After he won the grant, Ayers’s group chose Barack Obama to distribute the money.
Between 1995 and 1999, Obama distributed the $50 million and raised another $60 million from other civic groups to augment it.
In doing so, he was following Ayers’s admonition to grant the funds to “external” organizations, like American Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) to pair with schools and conduct programs to radicalize the students and politicize them.
Reading, math and science achievement tests counted for little in the CAC [Chicago Annenberg Challenge] grants, but the school’s success in preaching a radical political agenda determined how much money they got. …”
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From Investor’s Business Daily (IBD), August 27, 2008:
“[Obama pal and associate, Bill] Ayers, now a tenured distinguished professor of education at UIC, works to educate teachers in socialist revolutionary ideology, urging that it be passed on to impressionable students.
One of Ayers’ descriptions for a course called ‘Improving Learning Environments’ says prospective K-12 teachers need to ‘be aware of the social and moral universe we inhabit and … be a teacher capable of hope and struggle, outrage and action, teaching for social justice and liberation.
The Annenberg papers are quite extensive — 132 boxes containing 947 file folders with 70 linear feet of material. They undoubtedly contain more surprises regarding Obama’s relationship with Ayers, one of many relationships Obama has sought to hide.’…”
Article: Annenberg Papers: Putting On Ayers?
Investor’s Business Daily (IBD), August 27, 2008
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From the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), an organization at the center of what is going on right now…
REVOLUTION: Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA [Maoist]
Interview with Bill Ayers, Revolution #63, October 1, 2006
On “Progressive Education”
(“Revolution” is or was the name of the RCP’s newspaper… #63 is the issue or volume)
At this point only the dumbest of the dumb and sickest of the sick continue to stand behind the Biden-Harris administration and their off-the-charts horrible record of “achievements”.
Quod erat demonstrandum.
Scott: Actually, we can extrapolate outward from your well-explained history. The pandemic (the one that Drumpf called a hoax) also created the supply chain crisis, which was and continues to be the single biggest exacerbator of inflation. Then Drumpf’s favorite person – Vlad the Imp-Putin – invaded a sovereign country, causing war in Europe, which has also added to the inflationary process. So while Biden’s policies MAY have had SOME, relatively limited, effect on the inflation issue, it began, as you suggest, with Drumpf and his GOP enablers.
As for gas prices, the only thing keeping those prices outrageous is the oil companies, who saw a (cynical) opportunity to increase their profits while blaming it on [choose your favorite bogus excuse]. In other words, a goodly percent of the inflation crisis – which is, as anyone with any sense, intelligence and honesty knows, global and not confined to the U.S., and thus not even POSSIBLY attributable to Biden or his policies (Biden’s policies did not cause inflation in Germany, for example) – is now “manufactured” and deliberately maintained by the multinational corporations that control such commodities as oil and gas, food, etc.
HO HO HO. Real estate scams are due to fold! See the new Trump Org bankruptcy filings, now that Putin’s cash flow can’t keep the poor managers afloat. Let’s how a new administration will be more honest and ethical than the T-mafia. Let’s hope!
Sorry, but the headline and lede for this piece do not support the subsequent copy, which includes this sentence: “It is our intention to engage a future operator as soon as possible,” said a New York City Department of Parks & Recreation rep in a statement to ILTU
It’s just another New York institution fading into the annals of history. This town is literally drying up and withering away. Par for the course in a place that priced itself out of its own game. Good luck getting anyone to staff the stores and restaurants, rich b*tches! Y’all are so greedy, so grimy and so wretched. Ya think too much of yourselves and your town that has nothing to do and nowhere to go. All there is to do is drive the empty streets, view the vacant storefronts, witness the crowd less sidewalks and constant closures like falling dominoes in a sadistic game of survival. New York isn’t worth it anymore. It isn’t fun anymore. It’s not the place it used to be — things dramatically for the worse. It’s sad, and I lament it every day.
Have you considered discussing your concerns with a competent mental health specialist?
Have you considered a vitamin supplement to boost your intelligence?
You, like most Libs, waste too much brain power on trying to sound or come across as intelligent rather than actually thinking and reasoning intelligently.
FACT: Oil production is up under Biden.
FACT: Inflation is worldwide.
FACT: trump wanted the exact stimulus payment Biden secured.
Next?
“When COVID hit, the price of oil dropped and then production dropped.
Surprise, surprise.” –quote from following article….
Is America Really Producing More Oil Under Biden Than Trump?
No, Obviously Not.
Joseph Simonson • June 15, 2022
The White House and its allies are circulating a misleading talking point that the Biden administration is overseeing the most oil production in U.S. history.
Both White House chief of staff Ron Klain and President Joe Biden have used the talking point as a response to Republican criticism that Democrats are discouraging domestic energy production through regulation and not issuing new drilling permits. Earlier this month, Klain shared a chart on Twitter showing oil production under Biden—at an annual average of 11.18 million barrels a day—was higher than any of his five predecessors. In March, Biden said the United States was “approaching record levels of oil and natural gas production.”
The claim from Democrats that domestic production is higher now than during the Trump administration is based on a comparison of four-year averages that includes the tremendous drop in economic activity at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Domestic oil production under Biden has yet to come close to the pre-pandemic levels reached under the prior administration, a more detailed Free Beacon analysis found.
The Free Beacon analysis of domestic crude oil production data shows that prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States produced just under 13 million barrels of oil per day at the end of 2019 and beginning of 2020. For comparison, that figure is more than 20 percent higher than the amount of oil the United States produced per day in September 2021. Energy industry expert James Wilson, who runs an oil and gas economics consulting firm, says the White House is abusing statistics to fit a narrative.
“You can claim anything with statistics,” Wilson told the Washington Free Beacon.
“When COVID hit, the price of oil dropped and then production dropped. Surprise, surprise.”
The White House’s insistence on repeating the oil production claim bolsters the impression increasingly held by the public and some Democrats that the Biden administration is out of ideas to tackle rising prices. Even as the cost of gas skyrockets, the White House is sharing a months-old graph from liberal blogger Matthew Yglesias, a symptom of an office “defined by insularity,” as Politico has described it.
Domestic oil production trends prior to the pandemic show how misleading these sorts of claims are. For example, the United States produced an average of a million barrels more per day between the start of 2019 to April 2020 than the 11.185 million barrels a day averaged under Biden.
Biden told a group of labor union leaders on Tuesday that “I’m doing everything in my power to blunt Putin’s gas price hike” and blamed rising prices on “nothing else but that.” Despite that claim, federal data show that average daily domestic oil production in March, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, was lower than in November of last year.
Unlike during Trump’s final year in office, consumer demand for energy is elevated today. Total U.S. petroleum consumption is estimated to rise 730,000 barrels per day this year over last, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Some industry analysts point to macroeconomic trends out of the Biden administration’s control, such as oil companies’ reluctance to invest in new drilling sites because of shareholder pressure, as reasons for lower domestic production. That explanation, Wilson says, does not tell the full story.
“Another thing that’s inhibiting these guys from drilling is uncertainty about what this administration was and is going to do,” Wilson said, referring to new and potential future regulations against the oil and gas industry. “The bottom line is that when Trump was president, these companies started producing and oil was cheaper.”
Earlier this month gas prices hit an average of $5 a gallon nationwide. Industry analysts expect that price to only increase throughout the summer when more Americans travel for vacation.
The rising price of gas and household goods is the driving force behind Biden’s plummeting approval rating. A majority of voters say the economy is their top concern in multiple surveys, and a RealClearPolitics aggregate of recent polls shows Americans’ approval of Biden’s job performance is lower than at any time since he entered office.
Well, at least we know what kind of sources you are using. Simonson writes for the ultra-conservative Washington Examiner, and is anti-Muslim, anti-immigration, thinks climate change is bogus, and even holds some conspiratorial views. And, no, that is not ad hominem: it is fact about who he writes for and what he believes. I suppose you are going to start citing Newsmax, OAN, and Breitbart next. LOL.
You, in all your obvious stupidity, continue to be loyal to “news” sources like the NY Times, CNN and MSNBC, who, time after time after time, have been caught red-handed pushing bogus news stories while totally ignoring or covering up major LEGIT ones, such as Hunter and Joe Biden’s treason and corruption scandals involving millions of dollars coming in from communist China and Russia, and, likewise, Hillary Clinton being busted concocting the Trump-Russia collusion scandal where she used high-level governmental agencies as the CIA and FBI to do her bidding, and you have the nerve to criticize MY sources as untrustworthy and illegit?? Lol!
This franchisee has been fighting the union since 2010. He’s given three months notice when only two months is legally required.
Question: Is he negotiating?
Hey Mod…..name calling should not be allowed. Idiot, stupid, fools etc…..when a poster attacks with name calling you should warn once, then ban. Not the content, I’m all for 1st amendment expressing one’s opinion…..I’m sure I’m not alone in this.
Very sad and also really telling of the structure of systems of this country. Clearly decades in the making. It would be rather ignorant to not observe other first worlds that have been along many centuries longer than the u.s. There’s much to learn from. Absurd also to read some of the comments and people associating one person (the president) or an entire party with blame?! Aside from the blame game seeming a lazy cop out toward solutions reimagined. As if the law systems in this country aren’t set up in favor of private business greed rather than ethical logic for society (ie business & economy).
The Loeb Boathouse will be truly missed but perhaps because this is indeed New York City they’ll find a way to pivot back. “Closed for good” would seem to predict a known future or rather “end” which would mean the tax payers that make our democracy, the community, all of us equal human beings of whom without economies would cease to exist, would claim defeat…
“I wanted to see if well-regulated liberty would not have produced better results.” – Memoirs of Hadrian
Re: “Absurd also to read some of the comments and people associating one person (the president) or an entire party with blame?!”
Well, the soaring inflation that is, in large part, forcing them out of business was/is a direct result of Joe Biden’s awful policies. Many other businesses are going under in NYC and throughout the nation as a result of suffocating COVID laws and dangerously soft on crime DEMOCRAT politicians (mayors, DAs, etc). Who in their right mind can deny with that?? It’s as plain as day!
Get Trump! I love the Boathouse and he can most likely do for it what he did for the Wollman Rink.
From Forbes Magazine…
“Once upon a time there was an ice skating rink in Central Park that could no longer make ice. No one could figure out how to fix the skating rink. Years went by and millions of dollars were spent and still no ice. One day a white knight wearing a bright red tie showed up and said: ‘ Let there be ice!’ Four months later there was ice. When asked by the press why the people had been unable to fix the rink themselves the knight said ‘they’re very nice people and I like them very much but they’re all idiots!’ And everyone lived happily ever after.”
Pretty much the true story of the Wollman Skating Rink fiasco. You can even check the New York Times. On May 31, 1986 Donald Trump said in an interview with the Times, “I don’t want my name attached to losers. So far the Wollman Rink has been one of the great losers. I’ll make it a winner.” Shortly after Trump decided to slap his name on Wollman Rink, if you read the fine print. Now, 30 years later, Wollman Rink is a winner and the Trump name is still associated with it. Just check the Wollman Skating Rink website. There it is! The famous, or, according to some, infamous TRUMP red logo.
The Wollman Rink incident underscores the fascinating impact that Donald Trump is making on the political landscape and the American psyche irrespective of the outcome of the presidential campaign. Wollman Skating Rink today is one of the most iconic amenities for New Yorkers and tourists located in Central Park just a stone’s throw north of the Plaza Hotel (which was once owned by Donald Trump).
Tom C is officially Coco Loco!!!