The Restaurant At 115 River Road Just Reopened. The Walkway Outside It Still Has A Gap.

A year ago, the building at 115 River Road sat quiet, its bankruptcy case closed and its dining room dark. This July, it reopened as Cov, a sharing-plates seafood concept from the family behind Blu on the Hudson. Fifty feet from its front door, the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway still breaks apart near Mitsuwa, forcing walkers back onto the sidewalk of River Road, a gap that has been sitting in the same permitting file for years. Both facts are true on the same stretch of shoreline this summer, and neither one explains the other.

What opened where Pier 115 used to be

Cov took over the multi-level waterfront building that spent years as Pier 115 Bar + Grill, a longtime Edgewater fixture known for its decks and its Manhattan sightlines. Pier 115's operating company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in March 2025. The case was dismissed that April and formally closed in June 2025. Cov opened its doors on July 19, 2026, at 115 River Road, on the former site of Pier 115 restaurant in Edgewater. That is just over a year between the old restaurant's legal ending and the new one's opening night, for one of the more recognizable addresses on the borough's waterfront.

The new tenant isn't a first-time operator testing the market. Cov comes from the son of the owners of another waterfront restaurant, Blu on the Hudson in Weehawken, a 30,000-square-foot location that opened in spring 2023, alongside a sister property in Livingston. The menu, built around a curated chilled bar and designed for sharing with ample selections of seafood, pastas, grilled specialties, and more, leans into the same golden-hour waterfront identity the group built in Weehawken. In its own release, the ownership described the goal plainly:

"Designed as the ultimate setting for leisurely lunches and golden hour aperitivos"

If you're planning to walk over, note the schedule. Cov is closed Monday and Tuesday, open Wednesday and Thursday from 3 to 10 p.m., Friday until 11, and weekends from early afternoon. OpenTable currently lists it as "a Summer Concept," language that suggests the restaurant itself may be treating this season as a test run rather than a fixed, permanent format. Worth watching if you're a regular.

Fifty feet from the front door, the sidewalk still breaks

Step outside Cov and head north along River Road and you're on the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway, a flat, paved path that runs the length of Edgewater's shoreline. It's popular enough that people drive in from other towns to use it, and it's genuinely one of the better free views in the region, the Manhattan skyline sitting directly across the water for most of its length.

It also isn't finished. Walkers who've logged the route describe a stretch where the path ends without warning past the Trader Joe's, pushing pedestrians onto the road before it picks back up behind the Mitsuwa shopping center. That gap sits on a parcel at 615 River Road, the former Hess Oil tank farm, located between the Mitsuwa Shopping Center to the south and Edgewater Market to the north. It has been a known hole in the Walkway for years, and it is only now moving through the final stage of approval.

According to the Hudson River Waterfront Conservancy, the nonprofit that tracks every waterfront permit application filed with the state, a proposal to build a ferry dock alongside the missing Walkway segment at that address was listed as "Administratively Complete" on 3/31/26, which started a required 90-day clock for the state's environmental regulator to act. The Conservancy backed the plan, writing that the project would eventually "close one of the remaining 'Gaps' in the Edgewater Walkway." A working ferry dock at the same address would also add a new boarding point for the Manhattan ferry from this part of Edgewater. That 90-day window closed around the end of June. As of the Conservancy's most recent public update, a modification request was still working its way through the state's review, meaning the file remains open rather than resolved.

That single address is one of three unfinished links in Edgewater's shoreline path right now, each moving at its own pace:

• 615 River Road (the old Hess tank farm, between Mitsuwa and Edgewater Market): permit under active state review as of this summer, with construction on part of the infrastructure already underway.
• 163 River Road, known locally by its prior owner Quanta: a 2025 application to build four high-rises and a Walkway section here was withdrawn by the applicant, DFT River Road Assoc, after an earlier request to simply extend an older, already-approved permit for the same project. The site's plans are effectively in limbo.
• Admiral's Walk, in northern Edgewater between the Marina and Edgewater Community Park: this one has actual forward motion. After the Conservancy sued under the state's Public Trust Doctrine, a court ordered the property to open, and initial funds have been obtained from the state to perform the necessary engineering, with construction expected to begin in 2026.

Three gaps, three different clocks: one under review, one stalled by its own owner, one moving because a court made it move.

Mark October 4 if you use this path

The Walkway's biggest annual event returns this fall. The Hudson River Waterfront Walkway 10K Race and 2K Run/Walk is set for Sunday, October 4, 2026, starting from Edgewater's Veterans Field with free parking on-site. It's a USATF-certified, flat, point-to-point course that finishes across the municipal line in Weehawken, with a ferry and bus shuttle bringing runners back to Edgewater for the awards ceremony. Entry pricing steps up over time. It was $25 through the end of July and rose to $30 after that window closed, so if you're registering now, plan on the higher rate.

The race is a useful marker for anyone who walks or runs this route regularly, not because it changes the path, but because it's the one weekend a year when the full length of River Road's waterfront becomes a shared, organized event rather than a daily habit. Given the current state of the 615 River Road segment, don't be surprised if the same detour you already know shows up on race morning too.

The short version

A single stretch of Edgewater's waterfront just demonstrated two very different speeds at once. A private operator can take over a bankrupt restaurant, redesign it, staff it, and open the doors in a matter of months once they commit. The public path outside that same building has been waiting on a state permit decision that was supposed to take 90 days and is now well past that deadline, on a project that's been discussed for years. Neither pace is wrong. They're just not the same clock, and residents walking River Road this fall are living with both of them at once.

If you've been watching how quickly the storefronts along this corridor turn over compared to how slowly the infrastructure catches up, you're seeing the same pattern that shapes value up and down the Gold Coast. Alena Ciccarelli Properties tracks these shifts across Edgewater and the wider Hudson River waterfront as part of the daily work of representing buyers and sellers here. If you're curious what a specific building or block is actually worth given what's changing around it, reach out and arrange a viewing.