Mineola bar staying open during storm
Olympic hockey plays at the Recovery Room Bar & Grill in Mineola on Sunday morning. Credit: Joshua Needelman
The Recovery Room Bar & Grill in Mineola will more than live up to its name during the snowstorm.
Joa Zee, a bartender at the establishment, said they will stay open all day and into the evening for those in need of a break from the expect blizzard — and she predicted there will be plenty of customers.
She said the bar had been full of people during January’s storm.
"People don’t want to be locked in at home while things are going down," she said. "They want to be a part of something."
By 11:30 a.m. Sunday, as the U.S. men’s hockey team celebrated its Olympics victory, there was already one patron sitting at the bar watching on a television.
Joshua Needelman covers the Town of North Hempstead for Newsday. A Long Island native and University of Maryland graduate, his work has appeared in publications including The New York Times and The Washington Post.
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