Apparently we’re meeting a local legend.
We’ve made it to Mary Bill Diner in Merrick and we’re minutes away from starting our Freshly Squeezed event with Richard Kessel, the former chief at Long Island Power Authority. We let the staff and crowd here know we’re meeting Kessel and one guy immediately said “don’t start a fight with him, because he usually picks up the tab for all of us.”
The wait staff cheered and laughed. I thought everyone hated anything connected to LIPA? There’s hope for Kevin Law after all.
[...] Island BizBlog’s David Reich-Hale and Henry Powderly III when they meet at Kessel’s favorite breakfast spot, Mary Bill Diner in Merrick, N.Y. It’s mostly a chat about his personal plans, but Kessel [...]
David gets to go to the Super Bowl with Bob Catell and Richard Kessel when
A) Journalists start getting paid like overpriced lawyers and fat cat energy stars
B) The Jets go to the Super Bowl
Good luck with that.
this place looks rundown and just gross. i walk past at night and you can see rats and cats inside the diner sitting on tables and rats just running all over! flys and bugs all around the inside.i dont know how this place is still in business. the health dept should shut them down! i hear it a landmark HAH please the place should be tared down! the celing leaks into pots and food is left out over night and fed to people the next day. its a horror. and get this…there is a sign in the window that says murchant of the year!!! HAH what year 1802? this is just some of the stuff ive seen im sure there much more! wow i wouldnt let a dog eat there!