Fishbowl

Columnist Will Miss Swifty's

Upper East Side restaurant closed Jan. 13.

Anthony Haden-Guest had no idea when he swung by Swifty’s on Lexington Avenue near 72nd Street earlier this month that he was taking part in some sad NYC history. But as he writes in his latest column for The Daily Beast, the Jan. 13 evening turned out to be the beloved restaurant’s very last.

Like Mortimer’s before it, the closing of Swifty’s was sudden. Albeit for different reasons. The former’s demise was sealed by a decree in the will of owner Glenn Bernbaum; the latter’s end, by rapidly rising New York rents.