"We chose Piermont because it's a beautiful community. It makes you feel like you're away but not away."
That's what Annamaria Adinolfi told a reporter in the spring of 2024, explaining why she and her partner Efthimios Salouros were about to gut a decade-old restaurant on the Tappan Zee Marina and turn it into something new. The restaurant they were replacing, Pier 701, had just closed after a nearly ten-year run. The one they opened that October, Trata on the River, is the version of that corner you'd recognize if you walked Piermont Avenue today.
Here's the thing residents tend to miss: that quote is already two years old, and the corner it describes has already moved on to its next chapter. If you're picturing Piermont's restaurant row as a fixed lineup of familiar spots, you're working from an outdated map. This stretch of Piermont Avenue doesn't hold still. It's been turning over storefronts in waves for years, and one of the loudest announcements from that last wave still hasn't shown up in the one place that would prove it's real: the village's own property records.
The Corner That Already Turned Over Once
Pier 701 sat on the Tappan Zee Marina property for most of a decade, the kind of spot where you'd bring out-of-town guests for the bridge view. When Chef Denis Whitton closed it in late 2023, the landlord, the Impagliazzo family, leased the space to Adinolfi, who already owned Elia, an upscale Greek restaurant in East Rutherford, New Jersey. She brought in chef José Luis Falcón, whose résumé includes Nobu and Windows on the World, and the two of them gutted the interior, moved the bar for a better water view, and opened portholes that had been hidden for years.
Trata on the River opened its doors on October 11, 2024. It's a raw bar concept built around whole fish you pick yourself, then have scaled, deboned, and grilled. If you've eaten there in the past two years, you've already seen this turnover play out. If you haven't, you're looking at a restaurant that's now approaching its second full year on the water, not a new arrival.
The Lot That Hasn't Caught Up Yet
A few doors down, at 675 Piermont Avenue, a different kind of turnover has been stuck in slow motion. The site used to hold a Knights of Columbus hall. Superstorm Sandy damaged the building badly enough that a developer's plan for eight luxury townhouses went nowhere, and the village had the old hall demolished in 2020. In November 2022, Piermont resident Adam Landsman, co-founder of the hospitality group behind Café Chelsea, Rule of Thirds, Sunday in Brooklyn, and El Quijote, bought the vacant parcel for $1.05 million.
His plan, filed with the village and reported in the spring of 2024, calls for a three-story, 14,800-square-foot building with parking on the ground floor and a 99-seat restaurant called Sunny's spread across the two dining floors above, plus a private event space on top. A separate application is pending with New York State to re-establish a marina on the site, and Mayor Bruce Tucker has mentioned a possible kayak launch as part of the project.
That was the plan as of spring 2024. Here's what the village's own paperwork says now. Piermont's final assessment roll for the 2025-2026 tax year, dated April 1, 2025, still lists the parcel's total assessed value at $850,000, the same figure attached to the land years before Landsman ever filed for a permit. If a 14,800-square-foot building were rising on that lot, the assessment would show it. It doesn't yet. That's not a knock on the project. Restaurant construction on a flood-sensitive waterfront lot in a village with strict zoning takes time. But it does mean that if you've been telling people "there's a big new restaurant coming to the old Knights of Columbus site," you're describing a plan, not a building.
The Row Has Done This Before
None of this is new behavior for Piermont Avenue. Walk six addresses on this same short strip and you'll find the exact same pattern repeating itself, just a couple of years earlier.
| Address | What Used to Be There | What's There Now |
|---|---|---|
| 701 Piermont Ave | Pier 701 (closed after ~10 years) | Trata on the River (opened Oct. 2024) |
| 675 Piermont Ave | Knights of Columbus hall (demolished 2020) | Sunny's, approved but not yet built as of the 2025 roll |
| 505 Piermont Ave | Gerhardt's Garage | Otto's Full Service (opened 2022) |
| 457 Piermont Ave | 14 & Hudson | Reilly's Public House (opened 2022) |
| 506 Piermont Ave | Mazagan | Sabi Sushi (opened 2022) |
| 474 Piermont Ave | long-vacant space | District 96's second location (opened 2022) |
That 2022 wave happened in the space of a few weeks. Chef Phil Iannuccilli turned the old Gerhardt's Garage into Otto's Full Service, a 130-seat New American spot with its own event space. The Reilly family, who'd run Irish pubs in Times Square for thirty years, bought the former 14 & Hudson and opened Reilly's Public House. Doug Nguyen brought Sabi Sushi into the spot that had been Mazagan. And the team behind New City's Burger Loft opened a second District 96 brewery location, betting on the same seasonal foot traffic that's now carrying Trata and, eventually, Sunny's.
Four restaurants folded in Piermont over the two years before that wave. Four new ones opened within weeks of each other to replace them. The row doesn't grow. It recycles, and it's been recycling since well before Sunny's was ever proposed.
What Doesn't Turn Over
While the ends of the row keep changing hands, a few things haven't moved in years. Cornetta's Seafood Restaurant & Marina, at 641 Piermont Avenue, has been running for more than 45 years and shows no sign of following the turnover pattern. The Piermont Farmers Market sets up in Flywheel Park every Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., year-round, rain or shine, and has for longer than most of the restaurants on this list have existed. Turning Point Park, a few blocks up at 468 Piermont Avenue, is still the spot where people walk off a big meal along the water.
These are the fixed points that make the rest of the churn legible. If you're trying to figure out what's actually new versus what's just new to you, Cornetta's and the farmers market are your reference points. Everything between them on Piermont Avenue is fair game for turnover.
Reading the Row Going Forward
If you live here, the useful habit isn't memorizing this year's lineup. It's knowing where to check when something looks different. The Village of Piermont posts planning board agendas and the annual assessment roll publicly, and both are more reliable than secondhand gossip about what's "coming soon" to a vacant lot. A restaurant that's actually under construction shows up in the assessed value before it shows up on Instagram.
For now, Sunny's is still a plan on file, not a building on the waterfront. Trata on the River is no longer the new place, it's the place that's been there for nearly two years. And the next turnover on this strip, whenever it comes, will probably follow the same script the last two did: a storm-damaged or worn-out space, a restaurateur with a plan, and a village that keeps betting the row is worth rebuilding.
If you're the kind of person who tracks this stuff because you live here, you already know Piermont rewards patience. That's true whether you're waiting on a table at Trata or on a permit for the lot next door. And if the day ever comes when you're thinking about your own address on this waterfront, not just where to eat on it, Christopher Falborn knows this village block by block, including which lots are actually building and which are still just filed paperwork. Get your free home valuation and find out what your corner of Piermont is actually worth right now.
