A new jazz club and lounge called Close Up is looking to take over the ground floor space of the mixed-use six-story building on 154 Orchard Street in the Lower East Side.
The concept will be owned and operated by Scott, Nydia, and Daniel Gaynor, the last of whom served as the music manager for Casa Cipriani – a posh private members-only restaurant club located in the iconic century-old Beaux Arts-style Battery Maritime Building – under Bruce Harris, where he would oversee the musicians and attend to all sound-related matters. He also worked as a server, cook and manager at an Italian restaurant called Il Moro in Hong Kong. Close Up will offer nightly jazz performances over a Latin fare.
The club intends to use social media and word of mouth to promote their events, and it will join only a select few other jazz clubs in the neighborhood including Canary Club.
It is slated to offer 16 tables with 59 table seats and 6 counter seats, as well as one service bar, with anticipated hours of operation of 5 p.m. to 12 a.m. on Sunday, Monday and Wednesday, and 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. from Thursday through Saturday. It will be closed on Tuesdays.
Its proposed menu includes Latin items such as mini cachapitas, mini fusion-style arepitas, mini corn empanadas, tequeños, mini tostones playeros and yuca fries.
