{"id":258393,"date":"2026-06-07T19:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T19:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/258393\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T19:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T19:13:09","slug":"former-gotham-bar-site-in-manhattan-has-new-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/258393\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Gotham Bar site in Manhattan has new owner"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of Manhattan\u2019s most fabled but currently empty restaurant sites won\u2019t be dark much longer.<\/p>\n

Texas-born Italian cuisine master Stefano Secchi, the chef of Michelin-starred Rezdora and Massara, both in Flatiron, bought the retail condominium at 12 East 12th St. that was home to Gotham Bar and Grill and later, simply Gotham until it closed<\/a> two years ago.<\/p>\n

\"TheGotham\u2019s former 12 E. 12th Street location has been vacant for two years. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n

Modern-American Gotham was long one of the city\u2019s most honored restaurants. It lost its luster after chef Alfred Portale left to launch his own place on West 18th Street. New owners and several new chefs tried their hands but it closed for good in 2024.<\/p>\n

We called Secchi\u2019s Emilia Romagna-inspired menu at Rezdora \u201csinfully delicious.\u201d<\/p>\n

The asking price on the two-level, 7,800 square-foot space was $6.5 million, according to Newmark\u2019s Jeffrey Roseman, who with colleague Mark Frankel represented the sellers, identified as 12\/12 Realty Associates. Shopping Center Group\u2019s Jacqueline Klinger and Ian Rice repped the buyers.<\/p>\n

A source said Secchi beat out a large field of suitors for the space: \u201cEvery big name looked at it.\u201d<\/p>\n

No further information on Secchi\u2019s plans for the space was immediately available.<\/p>\n

Other major chefs who worked at Gotham included Tom Colicchio, Wylie Dufresne, Bill Telepan and the late Tom Valenti.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Manhattan\u2019s most fabled but currently empty restaurant sites won\u2019t be dark much longer. Texas-born Italian cuisine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[288,4544,75,84,83,9,24,63,1491,3274,821],"class_list":["post-258393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-business","tag-chefs","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-real-estate","tag-realty-check","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}