Its breast days are over.
The Big Apple’s last remaining Hooters — a restaurant famous for peddling chicken wings along with breasts — went bust last week, closing its doors for good and sending locals crying in their beers over the “heartbreaking’’ news.
The chesty holdout in Fresh Meadows, Queens, abruptly shuttered as its PG-13-rated company battles bankruptcy –now leaving just one remaining Hooters in the Empire State.
“The lights dim. The fryers go silent. The last plate of wings has been served,” the location announced on Instagram.
“Farewell to Hooters of Fresh Meadows — a Queens legend where icons were loud, the games were intense, and the memories were unforgettable. An era ends. A chapter closes.”
The location had been a staple of the neighborhood since 2009 except for a three-year window when the building briefly housed a Miller’s Ale House — before local demand turned it back into a Hooters.
Last week’s closure took residents off guard — especially since the Queens Hooters had been advertising a boxing-match watch party just days earlier.
“Wait this sucks … We don’t have restaurants with gimmicks anymore,” a neighbor grieved on social media.
Another person wrote, “This is just heartbreaking.”
A third commenter said, “where are all the old men gonna go to get out of the house now?”
The closure comes days after Long Island’s only Hooters — owned by the same franchisee as the Queens location — also shut its doors, leaving nearly two dozen employees in the lurch.
The Farmingdale spot had been celebrating a recent bout of success over the summer after shedding its waitresses’ scantily clad uniforms and rebranding as a more typical G-rated restaurant.
“It was just a gut-wrenching sucker-punch to tell everyone that we’re closed,” Matthew Skupp, the Farmingdale Hooters general manager, told Newsday.
“I felt devastated having to call my management teams and other staff members to tell them that we’re closed and that nobody has a job anymore.”
Skupp said sales had been slowly declining for a year, except for a much-needed boost for the Super Bowl.
The national chain filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in March 2025 and shut down 30 corporate-owned restaurants across the country.
Sales across the chain had plummeted 15% from 2023 to 2024, with more than 200 locations across the country raking in just $677.9 million that year, according to estimates provided to Newsday.
The bankruptcy did not directly affect franchisee-owned locations.
The Queens franchise owner did not respond to calls from The Post.
Not everyone was on board with the racy restaurant.
Some people condemned its reopening in 2013 because of its proximity to a middle school and two high schools and the large motorcycle crowds it was known to attract.
Before it was a Hooters, the Fresh Meadows building housed the Future Diner, which is most well-known for being a campaign stop during Bill Clinton’s presidential tour — and where he famously ordered a turkey club sandwich.
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