NYC Return Plans on Hold as Schwarzman Cancels Birthday Bash
- Omicron strain has put a damper on restaurants, theaters, bars
- ‘The virus is bigger than any of us,’ Broadway producer says
Steve Schwarzman
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Mayor Eric Adams is urging New Yorkers to get back to the office, but even Wall Street firms including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. that pushed for a return for months are saying: not so fast.
Sette Mezzo is again packing up linguine alle vongole for its customers to eat at home instead of in the Upper East Side restaurant, while a swath of wealthy people are holed up in second houses in Florida or the Hamptons, having postponed their return and missing the city’s first snow storm of the season. Daniel Boulud has gone to being open four days a week from five at one of his eponymous restaurants near Lincoln Center as crowds have dwindled.