NYC restaurants starved for diners, while Miami business up
New Yorkers have plenty of reservations — about going out to eat.
Table bookings in Manhattan restaurants are down 64% in January 2022 compared to pre-pandemic January 2020 – only San Francisco (-66%) and Cambridge, Mass. (-75%) have fared worse, according to new data released by OpenTable and crunched by celebrity statistician Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com.
Brooklyn boites are starved for diners, too, with reservations down 55%. Data for the other boroughs were not available.
“It’s a ghost town out there,” one Little Italy restaurant manager told The Post, citing the failure of city officials to contain crime and chaos, which drives away both tourists and local diners.
“New York City can’t recover unless bars and restaurants are at the core of the recovery,” said Andrew Rigie, executive director of the NYC Hospitality Alliance.
He cites several major headwinds for…
