One of the most watched storefronts on Farmingdale's Main Street has its paperwork. On Wednesday the New York State Liquor Authority issued a license at 195 Main Street to The Saint Lounge NY LLC, the company behind The Saint, the nightlife spot that has spent months teasing its arrival in the space where X Bar used to pour. The license took effect the day it was issued and runs to July 31, 2028.

What the state approved

The license, number 0370-26-152212 in the SLA's active-license file, is a food and beverage business license, the on-premises class that covers a venue serving drinks alongside food. The application went in on April 20 and cleared in four months, which is a routine pace for the authority. The same public records show the other half of the handover: the license X Bar held at 195 Main, issued to a company called JS24 Corp. last September, has moved to the state's inactive file.

The company behind the new license is nearly as new as the name on it. The Saint Lounge NY LLC was formed on February 4 of this year, a Nassau County company with its registered contact in Westbury. Farmingdale Village's board, for its part, took up a special use permit for a bar and restaurant at 195 Main as the project worked through the village's approval calendar.

What The Saint says it will be

The Saint has been talking about itself all summer without saying the one thing everybody wants to know, which is when it opens. Its own channels describe an upscale nightlife destination with DJs and live music every night, signature cocktails, elevated bites and private events, and its teaser posts have leaned on the idea that Long Island does not yet know what is coming and that the wait will be worth it. The pitch, consistently, is a city-caliber night out without the drive into Manhattan.

It has been working, at least as marketing. The venue's Instagram account had built an audience of roughly 2,800 followers before serving a single drink, and its website remains a placeholder page. With the license now in hand, the last regulatory piece is in place, and the opening date becomes a matter of the buildout rather than the paperwork.

An address that keeps reinventing itself

The address at 195 Main Street has worn a series of names.Before The Saint, it was X Bar, the late-night spot whose DJ nights drew crowds from well beyond the village. Older listings for the same address remember Blue Hawaiian and La Villa Lounge before that. Each version has been a bet on the same underlying fact: Farmingdale's Main Street is the south shore's most reliable night out, a walkable strip where the village closes the street to cars for summer concert nights and the bars fill in behind it.

The village has been collecting new tenants all year. A golf-simulator bar is moving into the old OTB on Route 110, a dispensary that doubles as an art gallery picked Farmingdale for its first New York store, and now one of Main Street's best-known nightlife addresses is being rebuilt around a cocktail-lounge idea rather than a dance-club one.

What to watch

The Saint has announced no opening date and has not yet opened its doors. The signals to watch are the ones the venue controls: an opening announcement on its own account, and the moment the placeholder website turns into a real one. The license, at least, is no longer the question. As of Wednesday, the only thing between Farmingdale and its newest night out is the finish work.