The Mermaid Inn, a perpetually fashionable eatery astatine 570 Amsterdam Ave. for 15 years, volition adjacent connected Oct. 16. Owners Danny Abrams and Cindy Smith said that they mutually agreed with the building’s caller owners, a section partnership, to terminate their lease connected the New England-style seafood spot which was soon to expire.

“We’re some ace sad,” Smith said of her and Abrams’ feelings aft they broke the quality to 90 employees.

Their caller landlord has chartless plans for the gathering and, “We didn’t privation to person a edifice surrounded by a scaffold,” Smith said.

But Mermaid-lovers tin look guardant excessively to a caller determination nearby, Abrams said.

“We’re looking astatine 2 oregon 3 spots to determination connected the Upper West Side, and we anticipation to beryllium successful 1 by precocious outpouring oregon aboriginal summer,” he said.

Meanwhile, the duo are adjacent to opening a mammoth caller Mermaid Inn astatine 127 W. 43rd Street disconnected Times Square, the erstwhile HB Burger site, wherever they’ve teamed up with Alicart Restaurant Group CEO Jeffrey Bank.

Abrams and Smith said Amsterdam Avenue employees volition beryllium offered jobs astatine the Times Square venue. Only astir fractional of the planned 550 seats volition unfastened this fall, with the remainder to travel aboriginal adjacent year.

The New England-style seafood spot volition question a caller location connected the Upper West Side, the owners said.James Keivom

“We haven’t built it retired yet,” Abrams explained.

It volition beryllium their 5th and largest Mermaid. The oldest, astatine 96 Second Ave. downtown, conscionable reopened aft the two-year pandemic. The others are successful Greenwich Village (where it’s called the Mermaid Oyster Bar) and Chelsea.