I will have to ask Media Goon (he can be found eating dinner at Donovan’s at least 7 nights a week, sometimes eight, about this. I know a few Mets fans will sometimes pop in, but is a bar on 58th street and Roosevelt really affected by a Shake Shack 65 blocks away? Not sure I buy this argument.
“We’re still doing business but it’s not how it used to be,” said Jack Donovan, manager at Donovan’s, which opened in 1966. “We still have old-timers stop by for burgers and beers before they run down to the game, but the new restaurants in Citi Field are definitely taking away some of our business.”
Having a McFadden’s at CIti now has reduced the traffic in a lot of the Bars and restaurants in Woodside. Why would you want to get off the 7 line grab a beer and a burger when you can just go right to stadium and do the same thing. I do think the bars/pubs/restaurants in Woodside should advertise more.