Restaurateurs Danny Abrams and Cindy Smith are making a splash on the Upper West Side. The couple and co-founders of New England-style seafood spot Mermaid Inn have selected 61 West 74th Street for their next venture, Commercial Observer has learned. The site, located between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West and about a block and a half south of Mermaid Inn, previously hosted Patsy’s Pizzeria. The Upper West Side’s Mermaid Inn set up shop at 335 Columbus Avenue in 2024, after its longtime home along Amsterdam Avenue shuttered in 2022. Abrams and Smith operate a second Mermaid Inn location in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, as well as Mermaid Oyster Bar locations in Greenwich Village and Times Square.