The corner of Park Boulevard that held Woody's Village Saloon is getting its next act, and it is coming from across the county line. Foleys, the Smithtown bar and restaurant that opened on the Smithtown Bypass in 2021, is building its second location at 1015 Park Boulevard in Massapequa Park, and the last big piece of paperwork just fell into place: the State Liquor Authority issued the on-premises restaurant license for the address on September 3.

The signals of an opening in motion are all there. The Foleys sign is already mounted over the entrance, with a martini glass standing in for the Y. The company's job board is recruiting bartenders, servers, hostesses and kitchen staff for the new room. The license on the wall side of the operation now runs through August 2028. The website still says coming soon, but a bar does not hire a floor staff and hang its sign to sit dark for long.

What Foleys is, for anyone south of Sunrise

The original Foleys sits on the Smithtown Bypass and has spent four years becoming the kind of neighborhood bar Long Island keeps voting for with its feet: 28 beers on tap that rotate with the season, pool tables and darts, karaoke on Thursdays, live music and DJs into the weekend, and a kitchen that stays with you past last call territory, with doors open until 4 a.m. every night of the week.

The Massapequa Park pitch reads a notch dressier. The company describes the new location as elevated American fare and crafted cocktails, comfortable and polished, built to be social without trying too hard. The posted hours carry the Smithtown DNA anyway: 11 a.m. to 4 a.m. on weekdays, with a 9 a.m. start on Saturdays and 10 a.m. on Sundays, which puts weekend breakfast and the full slate of afternoon games inside the same building as a late-night bar.

The corner it is taking over

Park Boulevard is Massapequa Park's downtown, the strip that runs past the LIRR station and carries most of what the village does after dark. Number 1015 spent years as Woody's Village Saloon, a dive in the honest sense of the word, known for a deep craft beer list served without ceremony. Woody's has since gone dark, and state license records at the address trace the wind-down: the saloon's license, held through a company called Blaze Inc., went inactive ahead of its December 2026 expiration.

That left a hole in a strip that has been consolidating its case as one of Nassau's better bar crawls, with the Tap Room and a run of restaurants within two blocks of the train. A vacant bar on a healthy strip rarely stays vacant, and this one did not: the new license at the address was issued under Park Blvd Associates LLC, and Foleys' own pages have been telling Massapequa Park to get ready.

Why a Smithtown bar heading south matters

Long Island's bar expansions usually flow along the same river: a Manhattan or Brooklyn name lands in Huntington or Patchogue, or a national chain takes a pad site on a highway. A homegrown Suffolk bar choosing a Nassau village downtown as its second act is the less common direction, and it says something specific about Park Boulevard. The strip has the train, the foot traffic and a genuine late-night rhythm, the thing most Nassau downtowns gave up long ago, and an operator that already runs a 4 a.m. room in Smithtown clearly noticed.

There is no announced opening date yet. The license is active now, the hiring is happening now, and the sign is up now, which in bar-opening terms usually means weeks rather than months. For the village, the practical version is this: the corner that went quiet when Woody's poured its last is about to be loud again, and the operator taking it over has already shown, one county east, exactly what it plans to do with the space.