Yet another Soho institution will soon be history.
Broome Street Bar, at 363 West Broadway, has been sold for $12 million, Side Dish has learned.
The sale follows the death of owner Kenn Reisdorff, 92, in February “while on vacation in Florida, after having a margarita, a nice lunch and a swim in the hotel pool,” according to his obituary in the Southampton Press.
New owner Jon Krasner, who has an interest in Midtown’s Harlow and Sag Harbor’s Harlow East, is planning a gut renovation of the 4,100 square-foot space.
“The plan is to create a fabulous new Soho restaurant and bar in the spirit of the Soho institution,” said a source close to the deal brokered by Michael Bolla, Wynter Galindez and Lisa Rosenthal.
Reisdorff and his brother Bob founded the bar and pub grub restaurant in 1972 to serve Soho’s artist community. It’s arguably the oldest building in Soho, dating to 1825, and has had many lives as a German beer hall in the 1880s and as a house of ill repute.
An inscription at the base of the lions standing guard outside the bar read: “Man’s Last Chance.”
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