{"id":82553,"date":"2020-10-06T03:08:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T00:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/central-park-boathouse-restaurant-lays-off-staff-closing-until-at-least-april\/"},"modified":"2020-10-06T03:08:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T00:08:23","slug":"central-park-boathouse-restaurant-lays-off-staff-closing-until-at-least-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/central-park-boathouse-restaurant-lays-off-staff-closing-until-at-least-april\/","title":{"rendered":"#Central Park Boathouse restaurant lays off staff, closing until at least April"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Central Park Boathouse restaurant lays off staff, closing until at least April<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n COVID-19 has sunk the Central Park Boathouse restaurant, a landmark on the lake since 1954 \u2014 but it could pop back to the surface next spring, owner Dean Poll told The Post.<\/p>\n

The iconic eatery\u2019s\u00a0closing was reported after Poll notified the New York State Labor Department that it was permanently laying off all 163 furloughed employees. The lakeside eatery has been dark since March.<\/p>\n

But although the layoffs are permanent, the shutdown is temporary, according to the filing and to Poll himself.<\/p>\n

Diners in the eatery\u2019s roughly 200 seats enjoy a picturesque setting with views of the Central Park lake and the Upper West Side in the distance. The restaurant has app<\/a>eared in movies<\/a> including \u201cWhen Harry Met Sally.\u201d<\/p>\n

Poll said he\u2019s been in talks with the city\u2019s Parks Department, which has licensed the place to Poll for more than 20 years, to \u201cdiscuss ways\u201d for the Boathouse to reopen.<\/p>\n

A source close to the situation told The Post, \u201cThey weren\u2019t going to reopen short-term, since the Boathouse depends a lot on both tourists and large parties. The tourists aren\u2019t there, and large parties aren\u2019t allowed, so it made no sense for them to try to reopen now.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a statement, Poll said that he and the city \u201cagree that due to the coming winter months, the Boathouse will reopen next season in April.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Poll added that he hoped to make a deal with the restaurant\u2019s union, New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council, to hire back union staff based on seniority and to \u201crenegotiate terms for the balance of the remaining years of the license agreement\u201d with the city.<\/p>\n

Under the 15-year license deal with the Parks Department signed in 2017, Poll pays the city a fee of up to $1.702 million or 7.2 percent of gross annual receipts, whichever is greater, up to $22 million each year.<\/p>\n

Poll reopened the Boathouse in 2017 after a months-long closing for $2.9 million worth of refurbishing and modernization.<\/p>\n

Parks Dept. spokeswoman Megan Moriarty said the Boathouse is allowed to reopen in accordance with state COVID-19 rules. She said that the city hasn\u2019t billed the restaurant for the fee since the government-ordered March shutdown.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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