This was a family favorite. A very sad state of the economy when I see Burger's Bar, Mabat, Fish of the C and several other places close in just the past several months.

I hope the owners and employees find work quickly and have good fortunes in their next endeavor.

Hope the economy improves, the new Teaneck Council and others find ways to improve the business environment in town, not just helping existing businesses to flourish, but to attract others to pursue their dreams IN TEANECK. Furthermore, the variety and quality of these establishments is a WIN - WIN for Teaneck residents.

i visited this store when it first opened and found it to be very nice experience. this town is really in the dumps. Very very bad situation we have here. WHy can Englewood get it right and we cannot?

There are way too many restuarants in Teaneck serving a particular clientale. I guess it is natures way of making sure that only strong survive.

It was a good restuarant but was just a little too expensive for me.

its not just restaurants .. read the news or better yet go for a drive around. Cedar Lane has For Rent signs all over, Teaneck Road is not looking good at all either.
Jason, Paramus is different with malls and i dont know about Franklin Lakes. Englewood does have a nice downtown and is a lot like Teaneck. I remember when Englewood was run down too but they wokred on fixing things. I think Teaneck is getting worse

Zizi Fish of the C's was actually the most affordable kosher restaurant around. So if th the taxes in Teaneck double every 10 years that means I can look forward to paying 20 grand in 10 years. Terrific.

The problem with owning a kosher restaurant in Teaneck can be summed up in 4 letters: RCBC. This organization provides the kosher supervision for most of the town's kosher eateries, and in short, extorts money from the owners, forces them to hire specific individuals at high wages that are not in line with the job's responsibilities, and imposes restrictions on kosher businesses which are not found in almost any other community.
That, plus the fact that, valid or not, kosher restaurant prices are at least 50% higher that non-kosher, and the restaurant must be closed from Friday lunch through late Saturday night, costing them tons of money.

Friends and Neighbors: Look to the Council especially the long time members. It spent about $5 million tax dollars over the past decade on Cedar Lane - the CLSID - Cedar Lane Special Improvement District which was renamed the CLMG - Cedar Lane Management Group), and the $3.9 million Streetscape Project. Bad luck? Bad Timing? Bad judgment? All three? The money is gone.

I feel badly for Clark of Fish of the C's. I thought of his as a successful restaurant. I am sorry I am wrong. He mentions "lack of foot traffic". Some parts of the Streetscape sidewalk are only about 5 foot wide and the township put some tree plantings at these narrow locations, further narrowing the passable sidewalk. That did not help foot traffic. Wider sidewalks would have done that but that was not part of the plan. Sadly, it could have been.

Can someone remind Loretta Weinberg to focus on NJ Jobs and the economy instead of Gay Marriage please

I love fish of the seas but the prices doubled in the last few weeks and I have to stop going to my monthly outing.

If stores were allowed to be open on Sundays, a lot more business would be staying in the area instead of going North to Palisades Center or South to Jersey Gardens. Maybe it's time to get rid of the blue laws.

Of course it is time to offer local option on the blue law. In fact it is way past time. Unfortunately, Paramus does not want competition. They assume a dollar not spent Sunday in Teaneck becomes a dollar spent Monday in Paramus. And they want to have their cake and eat it too: low taxes plus all the business.

Blue laws?? lets stop blaming other people for Teaneck problems. Blue Laws are every where in Bergen County but other towns dont have all these stores closing. Cedar Lane business need help!

Of course the blue law is the problem. The perception in the world is that businesses are all closed Saturday (even when they are open). No retail business can do well with only five days a week. We need an option as to which day a business closes (at the minimum). This was the ancient practice in New York before NY entered the modern world. If stores in Teaneck were known to be open Sundays there would be a total change.

I think the better thing will be to get rid of blue laws and let the store owners decide what is good for their business.....

Zizi, of course you are right, but the political process has so far overwhelmed Bergen County and left this county as the only backwater in the state--in the country, in fact--with a blue law in effect.

Everyone: What kind of stores would you all like to see on Cedar Lane?

Better Restaurants and more Retail shopping. Also more "high end" housing like condos etc to bring more people. I say copy Englewood/Ridgewood

JamesTS: You are right. That was the formula that Englewood and Ridgewood used. Housing for empty nesters near shopping and transit. Can't call it skyscrapers because the housing is only 4 stories high in Englewood. Teaneck turned such proposals down in the past 10 years. That means residents who want to sell their homes have no choice but to relocate to other towns like Ft. Lee or Hackensack. True, new families move into those homes but we lose long time residents who wanted to stay but could not. Ask a Council member, "Why?"

@ Noah, Cedar lane has limited parking. I'd like to see a Staples, Starbucks and many other stores that meet the needs of the residents as well as outsiders.Stores like foot locker, NY and Co, men and womens outlet shoe and clothing store etc. I shop in Paramus because of the limited parking on Cedar lane and, the quality of stores. Consumers love sales and bargens. The current stores fall short on communcating cost savings with the entire town....The quality of store don't attract people.

#1 rule in retail.5 days rent..weekend for profit.

Add me onto the list of nice mid to high end shopping. Perhaps a few chain stores to anchor the block with a steady stream of shoppers as well as smaller locally owned shops. I'm going to ditto looking to the balance that Ridgewood and Englewood have to offer.

I'd also LOVE to have a nicer restaurant (or two) with a nicer bar area to sit and have a glass of wine and an appetizer on a Friday or Saturday night.

Right on

I agree with Henry Frisch. Teaneck needs the local option on the Blue Laws. We are too big and well located to resort to becoming only a bedroom community. Too boring. Regarding the Blue Laws, why is it that we are forced to observe the holy day of one religion while disregarding the holy days of other religion. There should be a choice by each business as to which they choose to observe.

Cedar lane for years has been regarded for one particular set of people, it's gonna be hard to change that perception until you change who is in office and get some more diversity of stores that will attract a different audience, the people who also fight against big name store coming Bcse of traffic concerns adds to the decline as well, they know what needs to be done and known for years, but they tried to make it for only one group and screw the others, now karma is teaching a lesson. Many residents in Teaneck fight everything that's gonna bring traffic to the community, Paramus has lower taxes because they have all the big name stores that helps to keep their taxes low, but not Teaneck their nose is so far up in the air they won't allow it and have their many reasons why so this is the outcome. It's time to loosen the reigns and change over who's in control and diversify

Chris--
Cedar Lane cannot get those national businesses because they do not believe there will be Saturday traffic or them and they cannot make it with only five days of business. Sunday is a must to get those businesses to come. It has nothing to do with the political situation in Teaneck and everything to do with hardnosed business decisions by those national outfits you want to see on Cedar Lane.

Poor foot traffic is a direct result of poor parking availability. I hate to go to Cedar Lane because it is difficult to park my car. Both street parking and the one public lot are almost always full. Add to that the high probability of getting ticket because of the pedestrian cross walks and I avoid Cedar Lane as much as possible. ( I appreciate the law but it is enforced as a method of generating revenue rather than as a safety issue). The West Englewood area overtook Cedar Lane for kosher stores in part because there is a parking lot which makes it easier to get to.

Chris, how does the town council actions regarding Cedar Lane favor orthodox Jews. Are there laws, statutes or rules that make it make it more favorable for kosher restaurants or is it just the free market? In what way did they "[try] to make it for only one group and screw the others"? There are both kosher and non-kosher stores on Cedar Lane, In what way would it help to not have the kosher restaurants?

I got a $54 ticket while parked in front of a barber shop that had a long line of clients ahead of me. When I emerged, according to the parking agent, I had been inside just over an hour. The one hour parking on parts of Cedar Lane is an abomination that forces consumers to go to malls for services and purchases.

Not many African Americans, Indians, Spanish, Russians have a need to visit Cedar lane, fail to realize or not but the stigma is that cedar lane predominantly for the Jewish community, Teaneck on a whole is controlled by Jews, bottom line there's not much regard for any others