The roof was gutted by the flames and earlier, the smoke could be seen billowing into the sky from Manhattan.
Firefighters responded to the Balcony Restaurant lounge and catering hall in Carlstadt at around 3:30 a.m.
Authorities have released the name of a crew member killed along with a colleague when the plane they were flying crashed this week at a small airport outside New York City.
Jim Silliman with the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday afternoon that the voice recorder had been recovered and was being shipped to NTSB headquarters.
NTSB investigators have revealed that the co-pilot of a Learjet was not authorized to fly the plane that crashed at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport in 2017.
The crash happened in an industrial area outside of New York City about a 1/4 mile from the airport.