{"id":321370,"date":"2026-08-14T15:51:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321370\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T15:51:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:51:04","slug":"tribeca-citizen-mezze-on-the-river-closing-permanently-for-bpc-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321370\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribeca Citizen | Mezze on the River closing permanently for BPC construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tMezze on the River closing permanently for BPC construction<\/p>\n<p class=\"postmetadata\">August 13, 2026 \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/tribecacitizen.com\/category\/construction\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Construction<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tribecacitizen.com\/category\/restaurants-bars\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Restaurant\/Bar News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/tribecacitizen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/BPCA-South-Esplanade-1.jpg\" data-slb-active=\"1\" data-slb-asset=\"182975363\" data-slb-internal=\"0\" data-slb-group=\"203626\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-203630\" class=\"wp-image-203630 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/BPCA-South-Esplanade-1-420x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"272\"   \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-203630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rendering for BPCA bulkhead construction<\/p>\n<p>Mezze on the River, the waterfront restaurant in Gateway, just south of North Cove Marina, is closing permanently due to Battery Park City\u2019s planned construction project along the bulkhead, a project that will last in that section for the next two and a half years. Their last day will be September 7. Thanks to J. for the heads up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith heavy hearts, we\u2019re sharing that Mezze on the River will close due to upcoming Battery Park City waterfront construction. We\u2019re deeply grateful for every memory we\u2019ve made together,\u201d the restaurant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mezzeontheriver.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">wrote on its website<\/a>. \u201cJoin us as we celebrate our final month together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tribecacitizen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Mezze-on-the-river.png\" data-slb-active=\"1\" data-slb-asset=\"554753953\" data-slb-internal=\"0\" data-slb-group=\"203626\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-173326 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Mezze-on-the-river-420x303.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"303\"   \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The restaurant is still run by Merchants Hospitality; it was Merchants River House originally, opening there in 2011, but was rebranded and <a href=\"https:\/\/tribecacitizen.com\/2022\/06\/27\/seen-heard-metal-alchemist-coming-to-reade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reopened as Mezze on the River<\/a> in June 2022.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tribecacitizen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/BPCA-South-Esplanade-map.png\" data-slb-active=\"1\" data-slb-asset=\"1902481240\" data-slb-internal=\"0\" data-slb-group=\"203626\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-203631 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/BPCA-South-Esplanade-map-420x151.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"151\"   \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have not been tracking that section of the construction in Battery Park City as closely as areas farther north. (See the most recent post here about the <a href=\"https:\/\/tribecacitizen.com\/2026\/07\/20\/a-progress-report-on-the-work-in-rockefeller-park\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">work along Stuy<\/a>.) The restaurant is located in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bpcresiliency.info\/construction-updates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u201cSouth Esplanade\u201d construction area<\/a>, which stretches from the south side of North Cove to the top of South Cove.<\/p>\n<p>Estimated construction duration for the South Esplanade total is 50 months; work started this spring on this section and will last for two and a half years. Access to the esplanade is already limited; a pedestrian pathway between the North Cove Marina and Brookfield Place is no longer available.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mezze on the River closing permanently for BPC construction August 13, 2026 \u2022 Construction, Restaurant\/Bar News Rendering for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-321370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321370","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=321370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}