barRestaurant Stakeout · Season 1, Episode 6 · Aired April 11, 2012
Willy Parkers American Bar & Grill
Williston Park, New York
Closed. The business shut its doors.
What happened after
Bar/grill owned by brothers Louis and Rino Di Maria; Newsday's restaurant-closures tracker lists it as closed. A local paper (The Island Now) separately reported storm damage (~$50,000 in food/equipment losses) to the business.
What happened on the show
The Williston Park stakeout turned on a pair of brothers. Willy Parkers was owned by Louis and Rino Di Maria, and the episode's whole framing, right down to its title, put the sibling relationship at the center of the bar and grill's troubles. Degel's hidden cameras did their usual work, capturing the floor when the owners assumed no one was measuring them, and as aired the footage let him show the brothers how their dynamic played out in front of staff and customers. His fixes leaned on getting the two to divide authority cleanly and stop undercutting each other, alongside the operational resets he brings to every room. The episode fit the show's recurring pattern, in which the hardest thing to renovate is not the kitchen or the menu but the people who share the name over the door and cannot agree on how to run what is behind it.
After the cameras left
Willy Parkers has closed. Newsday's restaurant closures tracker lists the Williston Park bar and grill among businesses that have shut, and a local paper separately reported significant storm damage, roughly fifty thousand dollars in food and equipment losses, at the address on Hillside Avenue. A precise closure date was not established, and the Newsday reference surfaced through a search snippet rather than a direct fetch, so we hold the verdict at moderate confidence. The bar the Di Maria brothers ran is gone.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.