Shake Shack To Open Across The Street From Columbia, Serve Alcohol

MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, NY — Shake Shack will open a new restaurant near Columbia University's campus Wednesday, according to a company press release.

In addition to serving up the chain's signature burgers, sandwiches and fries the Morningside Heights location will offer booze and signature deserts, according to a press release. Shake Shack will move into a prime retail location on the corner of Broadway and West 116th street, right across the street from Columbia's campus.

The space, owned by the university, was highly coveted when Ollie's Noodle Shop closed in March 2015 due to a fire.

"It’s no exaggeration to say that our office received over 50 different possible tenants who called in completely unsolicited to try and get into this space," Gail Beltrone, vice president for campus services at Barnard, told the Columbia Spectator in January. "We took every suggestion and every potential tenant very seriously, but we really viewed our role as an obligation to the community to make sure that we were establishing what would be the best fit."

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Shake Shack's Morningside Heights restaurant will serve three special frozen custard concretes: "The Heights Bites," "Shack Attack" and "Pie Oh My." Five percent of the sales from the "Pie Oh My" concrete will be donated to the Fresh Air Fund, according to a Shake Shack press release.

The new restaurant will also serve wine and local beers from Sixpoint Brewery and the Montauk Brewing Company.

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