{"id":158680,"date":"2026-04-06T17:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/158680\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T17:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:53:09","slug":"bank-moves-to-foreclose-on-swiftys-in-bethlehem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/158680\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank moves to foreclose on Swifty&#8217;s in Bethlehem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM \u2014 Swifty&#8217;s Restaurant and Pub, the Four Corners mainstay that was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/tablehopping\/article\/swiftys-pub-delmar-albany-closed-taxes-21223503.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">briefly shut down by the state<\/a> in December over a multimillion-dollar unpaid tax bill, owes\u00a0NBT Bank over $100,000 and the lender is moving to foreclose on the property.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A lawsuit filed Thursday in State Supreme Court in Albany alleges the owner, Dave Swift, stopped making payments on a $300,000 mortgage on the restaurant at 367 Delaware Ave.\u00a0on Nov. 18, days before state Department of Taxation and Finance seized the property and two other Swifty&#8217;s locations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit says Swift and his estranged wife, Rebecca Swift, also failed to make payments on a $25,000 line of credit. In total they owe $108,768 with interest accruing\u00a0daily.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear if the other Swifty&#8217;s locations in Colonie and Utica are also in foreclosure. The summons says the Swifts have 20 days to respond to the lawsuit or a default judgement will be entered against them and NBT Bank will take control of the property.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Albany Business Review first reported the news of the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>The foreclosure proceedings are the latest blow to the troubled Delmar watering hole. A Taxation and Finance spokesperson told the Times Union Swift owed the state $2.2 million in sales tax revenue.<\/p>\n<p>A database of state warrants named Swift \u201cindividually and as a responsible person of Swifty\u2019s Restaurant and Pub Inc.\u201d and\/or other people and business entities associated with the restaurant in 15 separate warrants dating to 2016 for unpaid sales and withholding taxes in Albany and Oneida counties.<\/p>\n<p>The Delmar location reopened after its seizure and has been serving customers through the winter and early spring with a limited menu.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Swift did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM \u2014 Swifty&#8217;s Restaurant and Pub, the Four Corners mainstay that was briefly shut down by the state&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1216,153,155,154,1215,296],"class_list":{"0":"post-158680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-alco","9":"tag-bethlehem","10":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","11":"tag-bethlehem-news","12":"tag-latestnews","13":"tag-local"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}