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The Mermaid Inn — perhaps best known for its popular daily happy hour filled with affordable oysters — is closing its Upper West Side location on October 16.
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The popular seafood restaurant at 570 Amsterdam Ave. (between 87th and 88th streets) will be shutting its doors after a fifteen year run, but owners Danny Abrams and Cindy Smith tell the New York Post, which broke the story, that they’re looking to reopen in the neighborhood.
“We’re looking at two or three spots to move on the Upper West Side, and we hope to be in one by late spring or early summer,” Abrams told the publication.
Abrams and Smith assured all ninety of their UWS employees that they’d be offered jobs at the newest Mermaid Inn in Times Square, which is expected to open soon at 127 West 43rd Street. This will be the seafood restaurant’s largest outpost yet.
If you can’t wait for The Mermaid to resurface in the neighborhood, other locations can be found at 96 Second Ave in the East Village, 89 MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village, and 227 Tenth Avenue in Chelsea.
The landlord of 570 Amsterdam is apparently planning on doing some work to the building, though the details of this work are unclear at the moment.
We’ll provide an update once we know more.
Love Mermaid! Hope they move to the low 70’s or high 60’s.
No! That’s our go-to spot. We hope they stay in the 80’s (or 90’s but i’m sure that’s not likely). We’re in the 90’s and it’s a food desert here for anything quality. We love you Mermaid Inn!
I feel your pain. Used to live on 89th and it always felt like you had to go south of 86th to find good food options. Yes, there was stuff north of that but few and far between!
Definitely please remain on the upper west side. You have been our regular restaurant and would like to stay that way. Please try to stick around.
Mermaid Inn is my go to restaurant. I love the food, service and location. Please find another location on the UWS real soon.
Noooooo! ?
Having a Times Square location, that’s not a recommendation.
OH NO. I really will miss the MERMAID. Whatn happened? Why?
It’s a great neighborhood go-to spot. Shame they’re closing
It is absolutely insane the amount of construction work that is happening in the neighborhood. Absurd that in a democracy some how private business that exploits environment and mental health ( listening to Jackhammers and inhaling toxic fumes doesn’t encourage empathy in these already for many other reasons disgruntle times ).
The Mermaid Inn is a staple, always packed, and will be missed at this location closest to my house and in a strip of the neighborhood that looks more and more like the metal caged West End Avenue.
I truly hope they do reopen. It’s a great restaurant and one of the best on the upper west side. It would a shame if they are only going for bigger restaurants versus quality neighborhood ones.