{"id":85269,"date":"2020-10-09T04:20:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T01:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/high-end-retailers-posh-eateries-reopening-after-covid-setback\/"},"modified":"2020-10-09T04:20:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T01:20:18","slug":"high-end-retailers-posh-eateries-reopening-after-covid-setback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/high-end-retailers-posh-eateries-reopening-after-covid-setback\/","title":{"rendered":"#High-end retailers, posh eateries reopening after COVID setback"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#High-end retailers, posh eateries reopening after COVID setback<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Manhattan\u2019s fanciest retailers and restaurants are back \u2014 just in time for a really rough winter.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s been a surge in recent weeks of high-end fashion boutiques and restaurant reopenings in central Manhattan, despite record unemployment, rising crime, municipal revenue shortfalls, schools chaos \u2014 and a COVID-19 infection uptick that\u2019s fueled fears of a second virus wave.<\/p>\n

While empty shops abound around town, Bergdorf Goodman \u2014 the city\u2019s priciest department store \u2014 recently reopened for full service after providing by-app<\/a>ointment-only shopping since June 24. It first welcomed the public back for a few midday hours in August before expanding its hours to 6 p.m. a few weeks ago and to 7 p.m. starting next week.<\/p>\n

The luxury emporium even set up its seventh-floor restaurant, BG, outdoors, with the cafe\u2019s signature gold \u201cpod\u201d chairs startlingly standing on the Fifth Avenue sidewalk. Bergdorf\u2019s rebirth is notable given that parent Neiman Marcus emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy only a few days ago and recently closed its Hudson Yards store.<\/p>\n

Per Se, the town\u2019s most expensive restaurant with a $335-per-person tasting menu reopens for dinner on Oct. 15 \u2014 despite being limited to 25 percent capacity rules. Other marquee-name eateries such as Le Bernardin, Jean-Georges, Restaurant Daniel and Marea also launched indoors.<\/p>\n

Other signs of the world of luxury coming back to life include the reopening last week of LVMH-owned boutiques such as Louis Vuitton on Fifth Avenue and the return of restaurant L\u2019Avenue<\/a> inside Saks Fifth Avenue.<\/p>\n

The reopenings might seem bizarre in light of the obvious crisis. But experts say there is a rhythm to the madness.<\/p>\n

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The Louis Vuitton store on Fifth Avenue.<\/span>Alamy Stock Photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not surprised at all,\u201d said Steven Rubenstein, president of the Association for a Better New York. \u201cThere are more people in the city. It\u2019s busier and more animated. People don\u2019t want to be trapped on Zoom all day, a poor facsimile of life. They\u2019re going back into the stores.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eric Ripert, chef-owner of Le Bernardin, noted: \u201cNot all parts of the New York economy are equally affected by COVID. Wall Street, for example, is doing very well,\u201d even if many staff are still working from home.<\/p>\n

For sure, many high-earners left town for second homes in the Hamptons and elsewhere. But residential real-estate guru Jonathan Miller notes that wealthy people will come back and forth. \u201cGreater affluence is by definition highly mobile,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Kathryn Wylde, CEO of the influential nonprofit Partnership for New York City, says luxury providers are also turning the lights on to keep their talent pools from fleeing.<\/p>\n

Plus, certain big-bucks businesses can only be done in person, Wylde noted. When it comes to Sotheby\u2019s plans to auction off a Botticelli painting for upward of $80 million in January, for example, \u201ccustomers want to \u2018kick the tires\u2019\u2009\u201d in person, she said. \u201cThis isn\u2019t Amazon.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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