Tavern on the Greed
From
A Walk in the Park:
The city has finally announced the compensation it will receive from
the controversial new Tavern On the Green and not surprisingly it is far
less than what it was previously offered, NYC Park Advocates has
learned. The fees to be paid to the city begin at just $1,000,000 a year and rise
to $3,273,000 for the final year totaling $ 38.7 million over the
twenty year agreement. By comparison, Jennifer Leroy whose family had operated the iconic
eatery since 1974 - agreed to pay the city $86 million in fees over a
20-year lease according to financial documents obtained under the
Freedom of Information Law. Mayor Bloomberg rejected that proposal two
years ago and instead awarded the license to Dean Poll who offered $57.3
million. Mr. Poll, who runs the nearby Boathouse Cafe - was unable to
open the restaurant. In addition to losing tens of million of dollars in lost revenue the
City is also spending $ 10 million dollars in capital improvements
fixing up the building for the new concessionaire who will then build
out the space. The dramatic renovation has completely gutted the
property. The Bloomberg administration awarded the twenty-year Central Park bar
and restaurant concession to the Philadelphia-based Emerald Green Group,
where Jim Caiola, a brother-in-law of ex-deputy mayor - and current
Bloomberg LP. employee Kevin Sheekey - is a partner. Mr. Sheekey is also
the older brother of former Parks Department spokeswoman Megan Sheekey
who was appointed by Bloomberg as the president of the Mayor's Fund to
Advance New York City. I think an investigation is in order.
The New Tavern on the (Dog) Green
The New Tavern on the (Dog) Green
From the NY Post:
"If
Tavern on the Green ends up dead for good, as now appears plausi ble, City Hall will have only itself to blame.
As
The Post has reported regularly, contract talks between prospective
new Tavern operator Dean Poll and union Local 6 have gone nowhere.
Until they make a deal, the Parks Department won't give a license to
Poll, whom it chose last
summer to run the landmark eatery.
In tapping Poll, the city threw out common sense in favor of a nutty
agenda utterly removed from the realities of the restaurant business.
It's reminiscent of Mayor Bloomberg's too-frequent utopian
obsessions at the expense of real progress -- like his far-fetched
"vision" for Lower Manhattan after 9/11, even as he ducked
responsibility for the World Trade Center site."
Tavern on brink
The
Parks Department decided last summer to dump longtime Tavern operator
Jennifer LeRoy in favor of Poll, who runs Central Park's non-union Boathouse. Bloomberg's Left Tavern on the Green To Rot--Steve Cuozzo - NYPOST.com *
Future of Tavern on the Green is ... a hot dog stand? (DN) *
Tavern on Green Back on Block (WSJ) * Team Cuomo is
working behind the scenes to give AG hopeful Kathleen Rice a boost *
Cuomo tried
clearing the AG field by attempting to block two unions from
endorsing Eric Schneiderman, and asking Sean Coffey to run for
comptroller.
Tavern on the Truck?
Mike Bloomberg told Donald Trump to hold off measuring the drapes for Tavern on the Green.
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