{"id":212436,"date":"2026-04-28T10:34:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/212436\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:34:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:34:35","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-south-swell-will-be-closed-for-the-2026-summer-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/212436\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | South Swell Will Be Closed For The 2026 Summer Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A popular South Shore restaurant won&#8217;t be reopening for the 2026 summer season.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">South Swell on the Bergen Bay Docks in West Babylon will close because of \u201cunexpected\u201d licensing issues despite having an approved liquor license and permission for live music.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">In a social media post, the owners say the problem is related to its cabaret license and that has made it impossible for them to reopen.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The waterfront eatery claims this kind of permit has not been required by any other business in the Town of Babylon in more than 25 years.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cIt is heartbreaking to lose something so deeply loved over an issue that, in our view, should never have stood in the way of serving our community,\u201d the owners said. &#8220;We are beyond grateful for every person who walked through our doors, every sunset shared, every laugh, every celebration, and every memory made at South Swell.\u201d <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 has reached out to the town for comment and are waiting to hear back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A popular South Shore restaurant won&#8217;t be reopening for the 2026 summer season. South Swell on the Bergen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-212436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}