I’m the co-founder of Whitmans Restaurant. After launching our flagship location within the East Village in 2010, we opened a second department in West Chelsea in 2016. Enterprise was nice, albeit with some regular ups and downs that include operating a restaurant in New York. However then the COVID pandemic hit, which was an enormous blow to our metropolis’s small companies and financial well being. Whereas the restaurant business and in style companies like mine have largely bounced again, thanks in no small half to large corporations like these headquartered at Hudson Yards bringing tens of 1000’s of employees again to the workplace,…
