Business

Grand opening of Joe’s Crab Shack Thursday

By Cyndi Murray | 06/17/2013 12:47 PM | Business, News, Top News

Gulf Coast seafood lovers rejoice! Joe’s Crab Shack is opening its Riverhead location Thursday. The eatery’s “100% Shore” menu offers Southern-inspired seafood entrees and a variety of crab dishes featuring Dungeness, snow and king crab. Just in time for summer, the Riverhead store will also offer a new promotional menu that includes the...

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Suffolk lawmaker unveils vision for Riverside

By Tim Gannon | 06/15/2013 2:10 PM | Business, News, Top News

County Legislator Jay Schneiderman has a dream. In the dream, the hamlet of Riverside has a small restaurant and grocery store near the traffic circle and a small three-story business district across from McDonald’s with stores on the ground floor and apartments or offices on the upper floors. The South Fork lawmaker...

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Ninow’s Music makes move to East Main Street

By Rachel Young | 06/07/2013 12:00 PM | Business, News, Top News

Ninow’s Music Store has officially moved to downtown Riverhead. The legendary shop, which opened on Railroad Avenue in 1957, moved to its new location on West Main Street, across from Chase Bank, earlier this week. “We could not ask for a better location to be in,” owner Ralph Vail said Thursday. “We...

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‘Branding’ plan leads to new enterprise park entrance signs

By Tim Gannon | 06/06/2013 3:17 PM | Business, News, Top News

As you arrive at the Enterprise Park at Calverton, you'll now be greeted by new signs. The signs are located at the Route 25 and Grumman Boulevard entrances. "It's all part of branding the site so people will come, purchase property and set up businesses," said Riverhead Supervisor Sean Walter. "Before, a...

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News-Review named L.I.’s top community newspaper

By Riverhead News-Review | 06/06/2013 1:14 PM | Business, News, Top News

The Riverhead-News Review was recognized as the best community weekly newspaper in Nassau or Suffolk county at the Press Club of Long Island awards dinner in Woodbury last week. It marks the first time the paper has won first place in the award category for best community weekly. The award hasn’t...

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Tax breaks being sought for apartment complex

By Tim Gannon | 06/04/2013 12:58 PM | Business, News, Top News

The owners of Blue River Estates, a 48-unit apartment building proposed for downtown Riverhead, will seek tax abatements and other incentives from the town Industrial Development Agency, according to architect Martin Sendlewski. Mr. Sendlewski addressed the IDA at its meeting on Monday. A hearing on the application would likely take place in...

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LaValle bill would force labels on genetically altered food

By Carrie Miller | 06/02/2013 8:40 AM | Business, News, Top News

New York could become the first state in the nation to require that genetically modified foods be labeled as such, a move farmers say could put locally grown produce at a disadvantage. State Senator Kenneth LaValle (R-Port Jefferson) and Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal (D-Manhattan) have sponsored legislation to require mandatory labeling of...

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Northforker Exclusive: First look inside Joe’s Garage & Grill in Riverhead

By Rachel Young | 05/29/2013 3:35 PM | Business, News, Top News

Joe’s Garage & Grill is under construction and won’t open its doors on Peconic Avenue in Riverhead until July, but until then, you can get a first look at exclusive photos of the car-themed restaurant. Eddie G, the restaurant’s executive chef, said Wednesday that the casual-style eatery will seat 189 people...

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Readers tell us 5 stores they’d like to see come to Riverhead

By Rachel Young | 05/26/2013 8:30 AM | Business, Top News

Riverhead is no stranger to new businesses, and more are on the way. A Costco Wholesale Club is being planned and a super-sized Walmart is in the works along Route 58. Buffalo Wild Wings, Christmas Tree Shops, Dick’s Sporting Goods and more are also slated for the town’s ever-busy thoroughfare. That’s welcome...

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Times/Review Newsgroup unveils Northforker.com

By Times Review | 05/23/2013 9:30 AM | Business, News, Top News, Wine Country

Times/Review Newsgroup unveiled today its northforker brand, focusing entirely on tourism, lifestyle and leisure content from the North Fork. Northforker.com will be updated multiple times each day with information on the region’s wineries, farm products, hotels and restaurants, real estate, arts and music scenes, as well as outdoor and educational activities...

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Local farmers say they’re not the one with issues

By Carrie Miller | 05/19/2013 7:30 AM | Business, News, Top News

North Fork farmers are facing new government regulations they say will lead to too much paperwork — only to fix a problem that exists elsewhere in the U.S. The new regulations, part of the federal government’s Food Safety and Modernization Act of 2011, aim to protect U.S. consumers from contaminated food...

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Hyatt Place staffers help clean up downtown

By Rachel Young | 05/13/2013 4:45 PM | Business, Community, Top News

Hyatt Place East End & Resort employees were on hand Monday to pick up litter in downtown Riverhead for the Main Street hotel’s first “Main Street Clean-Up Day.” “'Hospitality at its best' is the hotel’s mission statement,” said Rachel Dakin, a corporate sales manager. “We wanted to apply it to Main...

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New vermouth, Atsby, made in Mattituck

By Rachel Young | 05/13/2013 8:00 AM | Business, Food/Wine/Dining, News, Top News

Atsby. Among those with literary leanings, the name, lacking just one key letter, is explicably linked to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tragic hero, Jay Gatsby. Atsby Vermouth, however, is far from a lamentable case. The Mattituck distillery, which opened last fall and makes its eponymous product with locally sourced chardonnay, Finger Lakes...

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Riverhead Japanese eatery expands into Greenport

By Rachel Young | 05/12/2013 12:00 PM | Business, Food/Wine/Dining, News, Top News

Greenport has a new sushi and hibachi restaurant. Jimmy Lin, owner of Sakura Japanese Restaurant on Route 58 in Riverhead, has opened a second location on Front Street, across from the post office. Sakura, which opened April 28, took over the space formerly occupied by Andy’s Unbelievable Burgers and Seafood. “I’ve lived...

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Zip line proposal met with opposition from businesses

By Cyndi Murray | 05/10/2013 6:15 PM | Business, News, Top News

A Westchester man with hopes of bringing a 900-foot-long zip line to the Peconic waterfront in downtown Riverhead plans to address the Town Board at its work session Thursday. He aims to prove that his proposed ride is the type of attraction that will help bring foot traffic to downtown...

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Raphael’s Anthony Nappa wasn’t always enraptured by vino

By Rachel Young | 05/05/2013 2:30 PM | Business, News, Top News

Growing up in the outskirts of Boston, Anthony Nappa couldn’t have imagined that his life would one day revolve around grapes and oak barrels. “I didn’t find wine,” Mr. Nappa said from his new office at Raphael vineyards and winery in Peconic, where he became winemaker in late January. “It sort...

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The Riverhead Project gets new chef, menu

By Rachel Young | 05/05/2013 11:45 AM | Business, Food/Wine/Dining, Top News

The Riverhead Project has a new executive chef and will debut its revamped, seafood-centric menu later this week. Roy Wohlars, the former executive chef at Montauk’s South Edison, signed on as head chef of the downtown Riverhead restaurant just days ago, owner Dennis McDermott said. Mr. Wohlars said the new menu, set...

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Papa John’s Pizza opening soon

By Barbaraellen Koch | 05/03/2013 5:00 PM | Business, News, Top News

Papa John's Pizza will be coming soon to downtown Riverhead. Franchise co-owners Sean LaValle of Selden and Alfred Fico of Manorville are just awaiting the OK from the Suffolk County health department and are hoping to open May 16, about a week before the busy Memorial Day weekend. The business partners chose...

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