Some bar addresses on Long Island get one name and keep it for fifty years. Then there is 615 East Main Street in Bay Shore, which has been four different pubs since 2013 and is now lining up its fifth. State records show the room's next operator is a company called C.O. Foley's LLC, cleared to pour there as of September 1.

That is the building Bay Shore currently knows as Kitty Mulligan's Irish Pub, the high-top-and-Guinness room that opened in the spring of 2021 and became the east end of Main Street's reliable stop for live music, parade-day breakfasts and shepherd's pie.

What we know so far

The trail is short and unambiguous. C.O. Foley's LLC was cleared over the summer to run the bar at 615 East Main Street, and that arrangement took effect on September 1. It is the only operation now set up to pour at the address.

Kitty Mulligan's own arrangements tell the other half of the story. The pub poured under a company called BERMO LLC, and that chapter formally wound down in the middle of 2025, with no sign of a revival under BERMO, under the Kitty Mulligan's name, or under anything else at the address. Whatever pours at 615 East Main from here forward pours as C.O. Foley's.

What none of this says is what the room will be called day to day, when a changeover happens, or what it means for the pub that is there now. Kitty Mulligan's has posted no farewell, its website still lists regular hours, and its events calendar was still filling this summer. The business arrangements moving ahead of any public announcement is the normal order of operations, and it is exactly how this publication has watched a dozen Long Island handoffs start. The handshake moves first. The sign moves later.

The pub Bay Shore knows

Kitty Mulligan's belongs to Beth and Stephen Bermingham, the couple who found the space in the fall of 2020 and opened it that following March with the pandemic's capacity rules still taped to the door. They built the kind of Irish pub that plays it straight: Guinness and Smithwick's on draft, fish and chips and bangers and mash out of the kitchen, cover bands on the weekend, doors open early on Bay Shore's parade days. Four and a half years on, it is the longest run the address has managed in more than a decade.

A short history of a hard-working address

The address reads like a rental history for the building. Kirby O'Kane's Coopersmiths took the room starting in 2013. Coopersmiths Pub followed on the same floor in 2015. BK Grossos, a sports bar, arrived at the start of 2019. Kitty Mulligan's followed in 2021. C.O. Foley's makes five names in thirteen years.

Read one way, that is a cursed address. Read the way a bar operator would read it, it is the opposite: a room that has never once been allowed to sit empty. Every time a concept has wound down at 615 East Main, another operator has been waiting to take the keys, because a turnkey pub east of Bay Shore's downtown core, with the Main Street bar crawl a short drive west and no shortage of neighborhood regulars, is not the kind of space that stays dark on this stretch of the South Shore.

No, not that Foleys

A note for anyone who read last week about Foleys, the Smithtown bar building its second location in Massapequa Park: this appears to be a different Foley entirely. The Smithtown operation runs its rooms through companies named for their streets, RT 347 Associates for the Smithtown Bypass original and Park Blvd Associates for the Massapequa Park room, and its own website lists exactly two locations, neither of them in Bay Shore.

C.O. Foley's LLC is its own company, on record since January 2023 and receiving its mail at a Saint James address. Two unrelated Foleys advancing on Suffolk County bar corners in the same season is a coincidence, but an Irish surname over a Long Island pub is about the least surprising coincidence the records could produce.

What to watch

With the groundwork already in place, the timeline belongs entirely to the new operator. The tells will be the usual ones: interior work getting underway, a new sign, an Instagram account that starts following Bay Shore. Until one of those surfaces, the honest summary is this: the address that has reinvented itself four times since 2013 has its next name waiting in the wings, and the east end of Main Street is not losing its pub, it is getting handed a new one.