The city of Long Beach is considering two ordinance changes related to alcohol that could reshape one of Long Island’s most popular summer destinations.<\/p>\n
The first change would amend the city’s law, which currently only allows restaurants on the boardwalk to sell food and non-alcoholic beverages. The modification would allow them to sell alcohol, too.<\/p>\n
Long Beach City Council President Brendan Finn said the city’s corporation counsel advised the city to amend its charter to align with the state.<\/p>\n
Finn said the Allegria Hotel, which sits on the boardwalk, has been safely serving alcohol for years, in compliance with New York’s laws, but technically in violation of Long Beach’s.<\/p>\n
“[The Allegria Hotel has] been in business since 2009, no problems, great place,” Finn said. “People come here and have food and alcoholic beverages.”<\/p>\n
Tonight’s hearing also comes as a second restaurant, Tulum Tacos & Tequila, prepares to open on the boardwalk later this year. Last year, the restaurant applied to the state for its liquor license.<\/p>\n
The third establishment on the boardwalk, Riptides 11561, also applied for a liquor license last year.<\/p>\n
Finn said alcohol consumption would be restricted to each establishment and Long Beach police would continue to enforce a zero-alcohol policy on the rest of the boardwalk and the beach.<\/p>\n
“I don’t want people to be hysterical about it because people aren’t going to be allowed to drink on the boardwalk or on the beach,” he said.<\/p>\n
Tonight’s meeting begins at Long Beach City Hall, on the 6th floor, at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city of Long Beach is considering two ordinance changes related to alcohol that could reshape one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-256035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}