STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Is Dominick’s Bakery in New Dorp done? That’s the question potential patrons are asking as they step up to the front door and realize the door is locked.

Product is still on display at the counter and in the showcases. Yet with no notice on the windows or its Facebook page, the business at 31 New Dorp Plaza didn’t open Monday, Jan. 14, and has remained closed since.

Neighboring businesses did not know if the bakery was “taking a vacation” or closed permanently. A family member was not clear on what was happening with the business.

On Thursday morning, Dominick’s carting company removed its dumpster from the rear of the building. Meanwhile, a food purveyor showed up to collect payment on back invoices.

The Advance’s attempts to reach owner Dominick Di Lillo and the landlord of the property were unsuccessful. The phone still rings at the store number at 718-351-0040 but a recording says that the mailbox is full.

Dominick’s was criticized a year ago for comments Di Lillo made on Facebook complaining about the closure of New Dorp Lane for a race and street festival honoring Staff Sgt. Michael Ollis. At 24, the Staten Island native was killed in 2013 in Afghanistan while shielding a wounded Polish soldier from an insurgent’s suicide vest.

Di Lillo apologized to the Ollis family afterward.

"I was able to contact the family and apologize face-to-face, and they were gracious enough to speak with me,” he said at the time. “I told them I would do whatever it takes to make up for this horrendous incident.”

But Staten Islanders didn’t forgive so easily and countered with their own comments on the bakery’s Yelp, rating the place with one stars repeatedly.