Jolly Fisherman to close after 66 years

BY CAMERYN OAKES

After 66 years, the Jolly Fisherman & Steak House is closing its doors.

“It’s been a good run,” a Facebook post from Lori and Steven Scheiner states. “We have decided it is time for us to say goodbye.”

The Scheiner family has owned and operated the seafood and steak house restaurant at 25 Main St. in Roslyn since 1957, in the hands of three generations of the family.

One former owner was the late Fred

Scheiner, Steven Scheiner’s father, who on top of being a restaurant owner and family man was also a pilot and civil rights activist who earned a spot on President Nixon’s enemies list.

He was an early and constant supporter of Dr. Martin Luther King’s civil rights initiatives and was among his primary fnancial backers. The Scheiners’ thanked their staf, family and customers in the Facebook post for their restaurant’s success.

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