Liquor authority fines Mansion Hotel in Glen Cove $50G after shooting

Glen Cove’s Mansion hotel, where authorities have accused a New York City rapper in a July 10 shooting that injured three people, will get its liquor license back after it pays a $50,000 fine under a settlement with the State Liquor Authority, officials said.

Hotel management must submit a list of its planned events to Glen Cove police at the start of every month, and will play only recorded music — with no DJs — at its outdoor pool. 

Remy Marshall, who performs under the stage name Fetty Luciano, was arrested in connection with the shooting and arraigned last week on charges including attempted murder. His lawyer said he pleaded not guilty. 

SLA officials summarily suspended the hotel’s liquor license in the days after the party, citing 10 violations of state liquor law. The agreement to reinstate the license came after a meeting Friday between hotel owner Wei “Willy” Wang and SLA officials. 

Officials said they remained skeptical about Wang’s explanation of the circumstances surrounding a fight and shooting at a hip-hop themed pool party that drew as many as 200 guests.

Wang and his lawyer did not contest the violations, an SLA spokesman said. But agency chairman Vincent Bradley said he was reluctant to rescind the liquor license at the former Gold Coast estate during the height of the summer wedding season. “The only reason this is happening is because a number of angry brides have reached out to us, whose weddings would be destroyed by your behavior if we were to keep this place shut permanently,” he said at the meeting, which was conducted remotely and posted on YouTube. “You can thank them.” 

A lawyer for Wang, Michael Finkelstein, did not comment. 

Wang told SLA officials that, before the July 10 pool party, he had rented the hotel out twice to party promoters. He has since promised Glen Cove city officials “we’re not going to do this kind of party anymore,” he said. 

He also told incredulous officials that he was at the hotel during the shooting but stayed in his room or office and never spoke with police.

“That’s a huge concern, that there’s a shooting and he’s on the property and not going out to talk to police or anybody,” said commissioner Lily Fan, though Finkelstein said that management cooperated with police and turned over video footage that law enforcement used in their investigation. 

Another concern, SLA officials said, was the presence of 16 security guards, hired by the party promoter, at the pool party. The hotel liquor license makes no allowance for security guards, which SLA prosecutor Gary Meyerhoff said might have made it easier to win approvals: it sent “a message to the people who were going to license the place that you don’t have to worry about this, this is a high-end place, this kind of stuff isn’t going to happen. … Yet that’s what we end up with.” 

The security guards "did exactly what they were supposed to do," Finkelstein said. Marshall, the rapper, "was not allowed into the premises ... as he was being escorted out of the premises with those persons he showed up with, the incident occurred. He never got into the party." 

Glen Cove Mayor Pam Panzenbeck said in an interview Monday that in recent weeks her office had fielded calls from many anxious parents of brides- and grooms-to-be. “We don’t want to penalize those people,” she said. “As long as ... [Wang] is willing to play by the rules, we support his efforts to get his liquor license back.”

Upcoming events include a wedding and bridal shower, she said. The 20th reunion for one of Glen Cove High School’s graduating classes is also scheduled, Finkelstein said at the SLA meeting.

With John Asbury