MANHATTAN — The controversial fast food chain Chick-Fil-A has taken steps to open a branch in the Financial District, according to documents uncovered by the blog Tribeca Citizen on Friday.
Reports that the fried chicken chain would open a restaurant at 144 Fulton St. first surfaced in 2015 and were neither confirmed nor denied by a Chick-Fil-A spokeswoman.
A spokesman from Chick-Fil-A declined to comment on the reports Friday.
But Department of Finance documents show that the Atlanta-based food chain filed an Industrial and Commercial Abatement Program to begin construction on Aug. 15 at the Fulton Street address.
The FiDi building neighbors the Fulton Center transportation hub and was bought by Crown Acquisitions for $25 million in 2015.
This is not the only Manhattan opening Chick-Fil-A has in the works — the chain reportedly began negotiations in March to open a restaurant at One Madison, a luxury building on East 23rd Street.
Chick-Fil-A first came to New York City when it opened a stall in an NYU cafeteria in 2012. Three years later, Chick-Fil-A opened its first restaurant in New York City on Sixth Avenue and West 37th Street in 2015.
