SOHO — Broome Street Bar, an artsy SoHo stalwart since the 1970s, is staying in the neighborhood — contrary to reports that suggested otherwise last year.
The bar has renewed its lease at 363 West Broadway for another several years, staff confirmed Tuesday. It was first reported by the blog Jeremiah's Vanishing New York.
The 43 year old bar was owned for decades by longtime Greenwich Village resident Kenn Reisdorff. After Reisdorff died last year at the age of 92, the New York Post reported the bar had been sold to Jon Krasner, a proprietor of clubs elsewhere in the city and in the Hamptons.
The Post reported that Krasner planned to gut the institution that Reisdorff had founded as a haven for SoHo's once-thriving art scene.
However, on Tuesday staff at the bar said Reisdorff's daughter, Julia Reisdorff-Parker, had renewed the bar's lease in January for another several years.
Krasner and Reisdorff-Parker could not immediately be reached for comment.
