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Offering craft beer and small bites, Industry Standard opens in Greenport
A new eatery, located on Front Street in the building that most recently housed Tony’s Asian Fusion, quietly opened its doors in Greenport last week. Industry Standard is a craft beer and small bites...
View ArticleEqual Time: Working together to find common ground
It’s not about food trucks. Let me start by saying I am 100 percent pro-food trucks at wineries, breweries or even farm stands. OK great; now that I have established that, I will continue. This is a...
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Local restaurants shift gears after scallop die-off
This season’s scallop die-off — and the resulting dismal harvest — has restaurateurs, baymen and ecologists deeply worried. Stephen Tettelbach, a shellfish ecologist with Cornell Cooperative Extension...
View ArticleShould Greenport Village consider implementing a moratorium on new...
As the number of restaurants and bars in Greenport increases, village officials are considering ways to limit further expansion and better regulate parking. At Thursday’s work session, officials...
View ArticleLocal restaurants, with much smaller staffs, adapt to find ways to stay afloat
Jerry Dicecco never imagined a time where his downtown Riverhead restaurant would be selling cartons of eggs, toilet paper and wholesale produce to stay afloat. But during the coronavirus pandemic,...
View ArticleGreenport will move ahead with proposal to eliminate some parking on Front...
The Greenport Village Board has agreed to do a trial run of a proposal to temporarily eliminate some parking on Front and Main streets in order to increase the size of the sidewalks and possibly have...
View ArticleGuest Spot: Let’s certify businesses as ‘COVID compliant’
Confusion and mixed messages abound concerning the full reopening of the economy. Is it happening too soon or not soon enough? Will I be safe dining out or shopping in small stores where social...
View ArticleState to allow local governments to decide if restaurant workers, taxi...
Restaurant workers can become eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine under the current Phase 1b if local governments approve adding them as a priority, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday. The news...
View ArticleRestaurant curfews, food-with-alcohol rule coming to an end
Going out for drinks? Soon, New Yorkers will no longer be required to order food with alcohol purchases while dining out. Lawmakers voted Wednesday to repeal the mandate, which was issued as an...
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Village Board, citing parking, traffic, votes down parklets returning in 2022
Greenport Village trustees voted unanimously against the return of parklets at Thursday’s regular board meeting. Mayor George Hubbard Jr. emphasized after the vote that trustees are not “against...
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