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Week in Review: Fire Shuts Down Rocky Point Gas Station

A look at the top headlines from the week that was.

The Handlebar Restaurant, once featured on FOX's Kitchen Nightmares with Chef Gordon Ramsay, is long gone and its successor, .

The troubled location has its history, but James Dunn and Linda Metcalf, the owners of the new , aren't concerned with the past and are looking to provide great food and a friendly atmosphere in Mt. Sinai for years to come.

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"We want to bring it back to where it used to be where it’s a family-friendly atmosphere," Dunn said. "That’s why we separated the rooms again. This way you can come in here, sit down with your family on one side, and we still have the sports bar, where it’s going to be a little loud because it’s a bar."

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The Niegocki siblings have reluctantly decided to sell the family farm bringing an end to a legacy that they say has lasted 100 years and spread out over 120 acres in Mt. Sinai.

Almost a century ago, Anthony Niegocki Sr. traveled east from Hicksville to purchase a large swath of land in Mt. Sinai. When the elder Niegocki’s son, Anthony Jr., met his future wife Joanna Bubka at a dance in Eastport, the two settled down to scratch out a living in the dirt, farming the front parcel for his father, growing potatoes, cauliflower and cabbage among other crops. They bought the property in 1941.

The BP gas station on Main Street in downtown Rocky Point remained shut down Thursday after a fire early Tuesday morning.

The was called to the scene at around 12:45 a.m. Tuesday morning when a fire began in the convenience store of the gas station, according to Chief Ken Staufer.

Readers uploaded a video of Hallock Landing Road in Rocky Point heavily flooded after Friday's rain. Click the link above to watch.


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