Gallagher's Closes for Renovation - NYTimes.com Gallagher's, the venerable theater district steakhouse, will close on Monday so it can undergo a multimillion-dollar renovation. The restaurant was put on the market last October and was sold to Dean Poll, who had been negotiating to buy it for more than a year. Mr. Poll has held the lease on the Boathouse restaurant in Central Park for 12 years, but he failed in his bid to be the licensee for Tavern on the Green after he could not reach an agreement with the union, the Hotel and Motel Trades Council. Gallagher's, with its red-checked tablecloths, horseshoe-shaped bar and refrigerated wall of aging steaks at the entrance, has long been a hangout for colorful show-business and sports figures, many of whose pictures are on the walls. Mr. Poll has hired Niemitz Design Group of Boston, which has designed steakhouses in New England, to do what he is calling a restoration. The restaurant, at 228 West 52nd Street, is scheduled to reopen in October: