Dear City Winery Family,
I am extremely proud to announce the imminent opening of our new flagship City Winery facility, located at Pier 57 in Hudson River Park. With over a year of construction and a $20M investment, this 32,000sf venue brings together the best aspects of each City Winery location across the country and 35 years of lessons learned from building 20 venues over the course of my career between the Knitting Factory and City Winery.
Dare I say, (and it sounds ostentatious) this is possibly the best intimate live music venue ever built in NY or in the country.
And ironically, after many months of the pandemic, New York City has announced that they are allowing indoor dining at 25% capacity just as we will be opening our doors to the public. We are no stranger to challenges; we opened our first City Winery location here in our home base of Manhattan in 2008, right at the start of the Great Recession. But the Covid obstacle has been, and continues to be, more challenging with no ability yet to have live music, private parties, or many of the non-socially distanced features the facility was designed for.
Nevertheless, given the timing and the knowledge that our community is looking for a sense of safe hospitality during these challenging times, City Winery New York will soon open with over 200 socially distanced seats indoors and 70 seats outdoors so we can come together and start indulging our senses.
City Winery, even with a limited and restricted opening, will remain a place for people to enjoy the pleasures in life; wine, food, music, community and a really cool space.
At this point, it's only finishing touches and inspections that remain until we can unveil our space and get the wine flowing, so please stay tuned for the official opening date! Thank you and I hope to be seeing you very soon.
Sincerely,
Michael Dorf
Founder & CEO
