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Crabby Amy’s at Treasure Island Marina in Seaford muscled through a global financial crisis, survived Sandy, even COVID.
But last summer’s devastating marina fire proved too much to overcome.
“It wasn’t an easy decision because I love the Seaford community,” owner Amy Breidenbach told Greater Long Island. “It breaks my heart to leave there. I already miss them terribly.”
The restaurant space, which Breidenbach leased from the marina for the last 27 years, was heavily damaged in the August fire, leaving many longtime customers wondering whether it would eventually return.
“We survived Irene. We survived Sandy. We survived Covid,” she said. “But the fire was just too much.”
The fire was reportedly later deemed electrical and accidental.
In a heartfelt social media post announcing the decision, Breidenbach thanked the community that supported the waterfront restaurant for nearly three decades.
“Serving the Seaford Harbor community has meant everything to me,” she wrote. “I am deeply grateful for every customer who came and spent sunny afternoons with us, celebrated special occasions, danced to live music, had their face painted by Momo the Clown and made us part of your lives for 27 years.”
She also reflected on the generations of employees who made up the restaurant’s “Crabby Crew.”
“They were my family,” Breidenbach said. “I watched the kids that worked there grow up.”
In her online message, she thanked the staff members “that returned each summer,” adding, “Had it not been for your hard work, dedication and loyalty Crabby’s never would have lasted as long.”
Though this chapter in Seaford is ending, Breidenbach said she hopes to reopen Crabby Amy’s on the South Fork. She has since relocated to Montauk, where she owns two other restaurants, and said she plans to revive the concept in the Montauk area once she finds the right space.
For now, she said, she is focused on gratitude.
“I want to thank everyone for their loyalty all these years from the bottom of my heart,” she said.
Top: The restaurant space, which owner Amy Breidenbach leased from the marina for the last 27 years, was heavily damaged in an August fire. (Credit: GLI/Andrew Rappaport, file)
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