Manhattan - Kosher Steakhouse Isn't To Chelsea Neighbors Taste

Manhattan - Arthur Emil, whose restaurants include the luxury Midtown restaurants Beacon, Solo and Prime Grill, wants to open a high-end kosher steakhouse in Chelsea.
The 5,000-square-foot ground floor, plus a basement with about the same area, is at 147 W. 15th Street where Emil wants to open the new high-end restaurant steakhouse.

But neighbors of the mostly residential W. 15th Street block between Sixth and Seventh Avenue's, don’t want to risk it, they don't want to have a noisy nightspot in their neighborhood.

So early this month they went and asked Community Board 4 to recommend that the State Liquor Authority deny a liquor license for the proposed restaurant even though Emil pledged not to admit patrons after 11 p.m., and also to store his garbage in an inside refrigerated space and have it picked up at an hour when it would not disturb residents.
“We don’t run nightclubs,” Emil told the Community Board “We will be responsible operators at all times - upscale restaurants are my life.” And also the fact that a kosher steakhouse would be closed on the Jewish Sabbath from Friday evenings to Saturday evenings was suggested as an advantage for a residential block.

Neighbors, however, were not receptive and the community board deferred to residents and voted against approval of the liquor license.