Fuming bar and restaurant owners across the city are bracing for a weekend of lost sales thanks to the double whammy of today’s transit shutdown and tomorrow’s mega-storm.
“We’re not going to have any business, so we’re closed,” said Manny Suarez, the manager of the famed Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station.
Tory Delany, the owner of two downtown bars, Amity Hall and The Half Pint, reluctantly planned to shut down both for the weekend.
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“Not only do we lose revenue but the staff loses their tips,” she said. “We have to close for the safety of our employees.”
Others were not so quick to pull the plug.
“We’ve been here 157 years and I don’t think a little hurricane will bother us,” said Brendan Walsh, the manager of McSorley’s Old Ale House, the city’s oldest pub.
“We’re staying open [today] and Sunday morning as well,” said Terry Crawly, the manager at Langan’s Pub & Restaurant on West 47th Street in Midtown.