A New York-based hospitality group with deep New Orleans ties is bringing an open-air restaurant overlooking the Mississippi River to the Audubon Nature Institute’s Goldring Woldenberg Park, a key development in Audubon’s ongoing effort to open the downtown riverfront to entertainment and recreational use.
Audubon officials announced Friday that they have selected Crew — the restaurant group credited with transforming waterfront dining at venues across New York City — to bring a local variation of its successful concept to the 6.2-acre linear park, which opened in April atop the former Gov. Nicholls Street Wharf.
Crew is owned by Alex and Miles Pincus, brothers who were born and raised in New Orleans before founding their successful company in New York in 2014…