Hotel Le Bleu's Restaurant Space Up For Grabs
The owners of 4th Avenue’s Hotel Le Bleu are looking for a new tenant for the building’s top floor, according to banners hanging on the hotel. A club called the Vue that was unpopular with neighbors opened in the space back in 2009, and it was more recently home to an Italian restaurant called il…
The owners of 4th Avenue’s Hotel Le Bleu are looking for a new tenant for the building’s top floor, according to banners hanging on the hotel. A club called the Vue that was unpopular with neighbors opened in the space back in 2009, and it was more recently home to an Italian restaurant called il Tetto that got mixed reviews on Yelp. We put in a call to Le Bleu’s owners to find out much rent they’re charging and what sort of restaurant they’re looking to land but have yet to hear back from them. GMAP
There is ZERO chance that a restaurant or club will EVER succeed in this location. ZERO – and I do not say that because I (now) want Le Blue to fold due to their despicable performance price gouging during Irene (consistent with the crappy attitude I witnessed during a recent relatives stay there)
It is just simply not conducive to walk-in traffic and there arent nearly enough people staying at the Hotel to make it a viable business. The Hotel is on a particularly pedestrian unfriendly strip of a pedestrian unfriendly avenue – on the wrong side of the street from its potential clientele – is set back from the street with an ugly parking lot separating it from the sidewalk, it has an uninviting lobby and has horrendously slow elevators….It is just impossible for a restaurant and/or club to succeed against all that – even if it had the greatest operator ever – which it will not get.
The owners (I beleive the restaurant was retained by the developers and are different from the Hotel operators) should work to re-integrate the space as penthouse hotel rooms, or maybe build the coolest condo (and offer hotel amenities). beyond that the only other thing I could imagine succeeding there is to put in a pool and open it up as a high end gym.