Fleisher’s Craft Butchery Closed through August

A poster found taped to the doors Monday night, a scene noticed at all locations. 

Fleisher’s Craft Butchery at 580 Riverside Avenue closed down suddenly last week, and according to the corporate office’s posters - will remain closed through the month of August. Fleisher’s corporate offices couldn’t be reached for comment, however neighbors and customers described the sudden closures as a result of a possible personnel dispute. Fleisher’s was founded in 2004 with the mission to bring pasture fed meats to customers, with locations located in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Greenwich - all of which join the Westport location with locked doors and empty display cases. Originally beginning as the Saugatuck Craft Butchery in the current Saugatuck Sweets storefront, the small butcher’s shop merged with Fleisher’s in the larger location across the street in Saugatuck Center a few years after its 2011 opening. There’s no word on how the local shops handled the product remaining in the storefronts’ freezers and coolers, or how local restaurants and farmers are making up for the void in supply and demand.