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Restaurateur Danny Meyer is abruptly closing two restaurants after their home, a historic hotel in the NoMad neighborhood, has changed uses and become a shelter for migrants.
Marta and Maialino, part of the Redbury New York on East 29th Street, will serve their final meals Friday, Aug. 25, and lay off all 125 employees, according to a state layoff filing.
The 250-room Redbury, which officially closed Aug. 4 but which appears to have been mostly shuttered since the Covid pandemic started, began welcoming migrants this month as the city scrambled to house a fresh surge of thousands of arrivals from the southern border.
In 2015 Los Angeles-based developer CIM Group paid $158 million for the 13-story, 143,000-square-foot building, which is between Madison Avenue and Park Avenue South, property records show.
As the rate of visitors to the city remains below prepandemic levels in some areas, especially because of the drop-off in business travel, some hotel owners may be calculating that shelters provide a steadier income source...