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Edison Place in Glendale to close up for good this weekend
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
RPOZARYCKI@RIDGEWOODTIMES.COM
@ROBBPOZ
Closing time is coming soon
for Glendale‘s Edison Place
restaurant.
Aft er more than six years of serving
fi ne “new American” cuisine at the corner
of 71st Place and Cooper Avenue,
the eatery will be serving its fi nal
meals on Saturday, July 29, according
to Jim Long, one of its owners.
While Edison Place gained a loyal
following among local residents and
businesses, Long told QNS that he and
his six fellow investors had a diffi cult
time getting business to a sustainable
level.
“We had stretched it out with plans
and hopes that it will make a turnaround,
but it’s no longer tenable,
and we needed to make a decision,”
Long said.
Speculation about Edison Place’s
impending closure — and the sale
of the two-story building where it is
located, 71-28 Cooper Ave. — had been
swirling on social media for days. Long
confi rmed that the sale is expected to
be completed soon aft er Edison Place
shuts down. While rumors are fl ying
that the restaurant will be replaced
by medical offi ces, Long said it was a
“possibility,” but could not confi rm the
new owners’ intentions.
Edison Place, the brand referring
to the original name of 71st Place,
opened in 2011 in what was once Von
Westerhagen’s German restaurant,
which had a loyal following of its own.
Open for lunch, dinner and weekend
brunch, Edison Place features a menu
fi tting just about any appetite, from
fi rst courses such as crab cakes and
Mandarin duck spring roles to main
courses featuring Italian, French and
German off erings.
“I feel that those who came into the
restaurant had a positive experience,”
said Long, who along with his family
has owned and operated other bars
and restaurants in Brooklyn and
Manhattan. “The majority of people
had a positive experience and returned.
But it became a challenge to
get enough regular business to have
the restaurant sort of sustain itself and
go from there.”
As many as 20 people are employed
at Edison Place on either a full- or parttime
basis, according to Long. He and
his partners reinvested in the restaurant
repeatedly over the years to keep
it going, but in the end, “the numbers
were not there to stay” in business, he
noted.
“That’s diffi cult to deal with, and that
comes into your thinking and reasoning
because you’ve got good people
working for you,” Long said.
Long publicly thanked the people of
Glendale and Edison Place’s supporters
through the years. Asked whether
he’d consider reopening a restaurant
in the area someday, Long said he’d
need to “get through the next few
weeks” and tie up all the loose ends
before making such a decision.
“Thank you to the Glendale community
and the surrounding communities.
We enjoyed our time,” Long added.
“one of the things that was constant and
made it work was our staff and their
interaction with the community. That
is something that will be missed.”
Photo: Anthony Giudice/RIDGEWOOD TIMES
The exterior of Edison Place restaurant in Glendale.
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