A new name surfaced on the State Liquor Authority's pending list this week, and the address attached to it is one Glen Cove knows well. On Monday, a company called Capri 246 Corp applied for a full restaurant liquor license at 246 Glen Street, and the application lists the trade name the business intends to use: Capri 246.

246 Glen Street is Umberto's of Glen Cove.

What the paperwork actually says

The application itself is spare, the way these filings always are at the start. It was received by the Liquor Authority on August 10 and sits at the intake stage of review. It seeks a restaurant on-premises license, the class that covers a full bar with food service. The applicant corporation was formed on June 24 of this year, according to the Department of State's registry, and takes its legal mail at a law office in West Islip. There is no owner's name in the public record yet, no menu, no concept, just a corporation seven weeks old and a trade name that is also the street number.

What makes the filing worth noticing is the license that already exists at the same address. State records show the current restaurant license at 246 Glen Street is held by a corporation called Fusaro Inc, doing business as Umberto's. That license was issued last October and does not expire until August of 2027. A liquor license does not travel with a building; it belongs to the operator. When a different corporation files a fresh application for premises whose existing license still has a year to run, it ordinarily means a new operator expects to be running the room, whether through a sale, a new tenant taking the space, or the same people reorganizing under a new name and concept.

The name on the door

Umberto's is not a name Long Island takes lightly. The original opened in New Hyde Park in 1965, founded by Umberto and Joe Corteo, brothers born outside Naples who came through Brooklyn as teenagers and put their savings into a pizzeria that became an institution, later joined by their brother Carlo. The family name has since spread across Long Island and beyond, and the Glen Cove restaurant carries that lineage on the North Shore.

To be clear about what is and is not known: nothing in any public record says Umberto's of Glen Cove is closing. The restaurant's own website lists the Glen Cove location as open seven days a week, lunch through dinner, with its phone line and online ordering active. There has been no announcement from the restaurant about a sale, a move or a rebrand. The only new fact in the world is the application, and the application raises a question it does not answer.

This address has turned over before

The liquor file at 246 Glen Street tells a short history of the storefront all by itself. Before Umberto's, the space was La Pala, whose restaurant license was issued in January 2023 and lapsed at the end of October 2024. Fusaro Inc licensed the premises as Umberto's last October. Now a third name is in the queue. Glen Street has been churning in recent years the way downtown restaurant rows do, and a prominent corner space rarely sits quiet between chapters.

Why a filing is news before anything happens

This is the same early-warning system that has surfaced several stories on this site: a pending license application names a business, an exact address and a date weeks before any sign goes up. Sometimes the story turns out to be a simple handover with the kitchen never going cold. Sometimes it is a beloved name quietly making way. When the Bellmore bar the 3rd Rail turned up on this list earlier this month, the filing revealed new owners planning to keep the name. Capri 246 is the opposite case: the address is famous and the name is brand new.

What happens next follows a known track. The application will move from intake into review, and the Authority's file will eventually show a principal's name, which usually answers the real question. If the Glen Cove corner is getting a new restaurant called Capri 246, the license timeline suggests the change would land in the coming months, not next week.

For now, Glen Cove residents can draw only the honest conclusion: someone has plans for 246 Glen Street, has hired a lawyer, formed a corporation and paid a filing fee, and intends to pour drinks there under a new name. We will be watching the file, and the window, to see what Capri 246 turns out to be.