today it's owned by this man, lt. loy gordon of the fdny. >> anthony: you were born in jamaica? >> loy: it's a funny thing. i'm from the island of jamaica and i moved to jamaica, queens. >> anthony: why jamaica, queens? >> loy: well, my mom was here. >> anthony: what did your mom do for a living? what kind of work was she doing? >> loy: you know she didn't have all the education in the world. so you had to do all the odds and ends she had to clean floors and just do whatever she had to do just to get things going. i think it's pretty much the similar story of immigrants that come to the united states. they come and work hard because it's the land of opportunity and they find a way to make it out of the rut. or at least using that platform to have someone like me their offspring to become a little bit more, right? than they were. >> anthony: ordinarily the story is, i'm a regular beer drinker at this joint and the thought of it disappearing is unbearable for me, where am i going to drink now? but that's not your story. >> loy: i knew that this place