From DNA Info:
The Waterfront Crabhouse has always been more than a seafood restaurant to its patrons.
The Borden Avenue eatery — known for its menu of oysters, scallops, crab and lobster — is a neighborhood landmark and also an unofficial museum of boxing, where the club Ring 8 has held its monthly meetings for years.
But now the restaurant, which first opened in 1977, will have to start from the scratch, after it was flooded during Hurricane Sandy and forced to close, said owner Tony Mazzarella.
The restaurant, at 2-03 Borden Ave., was inundated in 6 feet of water, Mazzarella said. The flooding destroyed floors, furniture and memorabilia that decorated the walls, including old posters and boxing gloves.
Only the items that had been hanging highest survived, he said.
The restaurant, where customers also enjoy steaks and prime rib, is located in a building that dates back to 1881.
Amid numerous changes in the neighborhood, the Crabhouse had been an outpost of the old Long Island City that was filled with manufacturing jobs.
Mazzarella, 75, said it will take about three months to reopen following the storm.
7 comments:
We are sorry to hear this we just celebrated my son's birthday there last month - we have done this forever - they are very nice people and run a great fun place with great food. They just were bouncing back from their fire and now this! Good luck!We will return when you reopen!
Mazzarella, 75, said it will take about three months to reopen following the storm.
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Um, this is a restaurant. Three months?!?!
It was filled with stuff that was SOAKED in a toxic stew. Wood absorbs things - unlike metal you just don't run a rag over it and its clean.
People eat food here.
With it bathed in East River and Newtown Creek I am a bit concerned that perhaps it needs a gut rehab and high pressure steam cleaning.
All the tchotckes on the walls might have to be disposed or given to a museum for conversation.
I guess all the bottled and canned stuff will be tossed?
All the tchotckes on the walls might have to be disposed or given to a museum for conversation
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Yeah, and when they are done conversating, they can CONSERVATE.
I understand that they were over rated and over priced anyway.
But I could go for a nice hot bowl of toxic stew with Oysterette crackers when they reopen. You make it sound yummy!
The crabs I can get from the whores that frequent the Queensboro Plaza area.
All the tchotckes on the walls might have to be disposed or given to a museum for conversation
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Yeah, and when they are done conversating, they can CONSERVATE.
haha
Well its better than constipate or commiserate or collaborate.
This website is so educational.
Well its better than constipate or commiserate or collaborate.
This website is so educational.
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The Queens politicos in a nutshell. They commiserate and collaborate until they constipate.
How constipated can Queens politicians really be,
if they're always handing us so much of their bullshit?
Red alert! Dan Halloran is headed our way!
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