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2 Local Restaurants May Disappear As Developer Plans to Demolish 4 Buildings on 60th St.





JACK AHERN
07 MAR 2025

Two neighborhood restaurants, Philipe Chow and Il Mulino, could be facing the wrecking ball after a real estate developer filed plans to demolish their E. 60th St. lots.

Extell Development Company had already been planning to erect a new 37-story tower just next door at 655 Madison Ave., which is currently an out-of-use office building that they’ll also need to demolish first. Extell bought the lot for $160 million last October; its then-owner, Williams Equities, had already slated it for demolition just months before the sale.

Yet according to Department of Buildings filings first reported by Crain’s New York Business, they now plan on demolishing four adjoining properties that happen to contain the popular restuarants

One, 33 E. 60th St., contains the high-end Chinese restaurant Philipe Chow. Another, 35 E. 60th St., is a strictly residential building that reportedly has no occupants. The third, 37 E. 60th St., contains the Italian restaurant Il Mulino. The final address, 39 E. 60th St., is a mixed-use building that used to house a deli. The addresses that contain the restaurants currently have no residents living on their upper floors.

Our Town visited Philipe Chow on Thursday, Mar. 6, and was told by staff that they had “no comment” on a pending demolition. A manager at Il Mulino, meanwhile, confirmed that the news had reached their staff: “Our new thing is that the secret is out.”

He further hinted that Il Mulino intended to stay in the neighborhood if the demolitions are approved by the city, saying that they would “definitely be moving close” to the current location. People had begun to speculate that something was up, the manager added, when the last remaining residents living in the conjoining buildings began to move out.

According to property records first reviewed by Crain’s, the four new addresses slated for demolition are still listed under the ownership of Solil Management, a subsidiary of the real estate empire founded by the late Sol Goldman. However, the demolition permit filings with the DOB that were reviewed by Our Town list Extell as the owner, suggesting that there could be a lag in updating city property records.