Rocker Billy Joel is turning his love for motorcycles into a money-making venture, opening his own bike store in his New York hometown.

The finishing touches are being added to 20th Century Cycles in Oyster Bay, Long Island.

The store, which will sell bikes and accessories and serve as a hang-out joint for fellow two-wheel enthusiasts, is named after an exhibition Joel staged in New York last year to show off his own impressive collection of fast rides.

The music icon has long been obsessed with motorbikes old and new. In 2005, he set up a restoration business with friend Ralph Schneider to rebuild old cycles, and he is frequently seen riding around his hometown on a vintage British bike from World War II.

Billy Joel's documentary feature film "The Last Play at Shea" will hit the big screen at over 120 theaters across the country on October 21st, 2010.

In addition, several venues will extend the film for a traditional theatrical run. Here is the synopsis for the film:

The intersecting histories of a landmark stadium, a volatile baseball team, and a music legend are examined in a film that charts the ups and downs of the New York Mets and the life and career of Long Island native Billy Joel. When Joel learned that he would be giving the last musical performance at Shea Stadium, he decided to capture the event on film and then create a unique motion picture that would also tell the story of Shea stadium itself, and its place in the New York and Long Island history.

Joel brought on board his long-time collaborator Steve Cohen to produce the film and they turned to Spitfire Pictures as a partner. Directed by Paul Crowder, "The Last Play at Shea," weaves interviews with players and performers with exclusive concert footage - featuring guests like Tony Bennett, Garth Brooks, John Mayer and Roger Daltrey, among others.

The shows staged on July 16th, 2008 and July 18th, 2008, before a combined 110,000 fans, were the last performances ever to play the historic stadium. After 45 years, two Mets' World Series victories, and a concert that introduced the Beatles to America, the last section of Shea Stadium was torn down and replaced by Citi Field.

"'The Last Play at Shea' was one of the most memorable concerts I have ever performed," said Billy Joel. This uniquely American story is told through the voice of the working class Mets fan - the incomparable Billy Joel as it takes the viewer on a nostalgic and emotional journey through the history of Queens, New York and the emergence of the suburban middle class, the tale of one Long Islanders' road to super-stardom, the historic stadium and the teams and fans that inhabited it, and a seminal moment in Rock and Roll history coming full circle from the day The Beatles christened Shea Stadium as a cultural icon.

As "The Last Play at Shea" begins, the camera soars over the Manhattan skyline before veering east - across the Queensboro Bridge and toward the late Shea Stadium.

It's a fitting, poetic opening for this terrific documentary, which uses enthralling footage of Billy Joel's final concerts at Shea Stadium in 2008 as the hook to launch an exploration of the essence of Mets fandom.

Heartfelt testimonies and stark archival footage centered on both the Amazin' Mets bond with Shea Stadium and Billy Joel's ascent to super-stardom illuminate the franchise's enduring resonance as the team of the forgotten, blue-collar, Long Island little guy.

The Mets don't have the Yankees' cachet. In fact, they're often laughably bad. But all one need do is experience the emotion evident in every bar sung by the Levittown-raised "Piano Man" to understand the team's inextricable place at the heart of this city.

On Thursday, for one night only, more than 120 movie theatres across the country will present "The Last Play at Shea," a film documenting a rock star, a baseball team, and a venue with one thing in common: All evoke a "New York State of Mind."

The rock star is Long Island's own Billy Joel, who performed the final concerts at Queens' Shea Stadium, former home to the New York Mets, on July 16th, 2008 and July 18th, 2008.

Those shows - featuring guests such as Tony Bennett, John Mayer, Roger Daltrey, and Paul McCartney - are excerpted in the documentary, which premiered last April at the TriBeCa Film Festival. A Shea Stadium DVD will be available in February 2011, followed by a concert DVD in March 2011.

Joel, 61, allows he was a reluctant subject. "I said, 'Make believe you're making 'Jaws,' and I'm the shark.' Because the mechanical shark in that movie was actually a dud; Steven Spielberg had to shoot around it. So I wanted them to show me as little as possible, because I can't stand being on camera."

Indeed, in Shea, Joel shares face time with his band members and Mets alumni, as well as other pop icons and sports insiders. The "Piano Man" is admittedly "not a rabid Mets fan. It's harder to be a Mets fan than a Yankees fan, because the Mets lose all the time. Rooting for the Yankees is like staying married to a movie star."

One more new project has Billy Joel venturing into virtual competition. A dozen of his hits will be downloadable for the video game "Rock Band 3," out Tuesday. "I've never allowed my music to be used in a game before," but an Entertainment Weekly review of NBC's "The Office" changed his mind.

Alluding to an episode in which characters mention a "Rock Band" featuring Billy Joel, "the critic wrote something like, 'God forbid that ever should happen.' So I called my people and said, 'Get me (on) that "Rock Band" game.' Then I wrote the critic, saying that every time I get a check, I'll give him a little nod."

November 9th, 2010 will bring another reminder of Joel's selling power with the release of "The Hits," a 19-track compilation acknowledging next year's 40th anniversary of his debut solo album, "Cold Spring Harbor." Included is "Only The Good Die Young," recently covered on Fox's "Glee."

Billy Joel isn't writing pop songs these days; he's composing "thematic music, orchestral pieces. They could end up on a movie soundtrack, but I write them for my own edification." He keeps his ear to the street, though, through daughter Alexa Ray Joel, 24, herself a singer/songwriter.

2011 marks the 40th anniversary of the release of Billy Joel's first solo album, "Cold Spring Harbor," and Columbia/Legacy Recordings will celebrate the occasion with a definitive reissue project of newly restored and expanded Legacy editions of the complete Billy Joel catalogue, newly curated collections of rarities from the vaults, previously unavailable studio tracks and live performances, home video releases and more.

As an overture to the 40th Anniversary Billy Joel catalogue reissue project, Columbia/Legacy will release Billy Joel's "The Hits" - a newly compiled collection of 19 essential tracks - on Tuesday, November 16th, 2010.

The first-ever career-spanning single disc distillation of Billy Joel's Top 40 chart-busters & signature smashes, "The Hits" provides a critical index to some of the most beloved and abiding pop songs of our era.

Between the opening cut, "Everybody Loves You Now" (a deep track from 1971's "Cold Spring Harbor") and "The River of Dreams," the Grammy-nominated classic that closes the collection, "The Hits" charts a course through 30+ years of American pop music and culture through the eyes and ears of an artist who defined the times.

Billy Joel: "The Hits"

1. "Everybody Loves You Now" (1971, "Cold Spring Harbor")
2. "Piano Man" (1973, "Piano Man," #25 Billboard Hot 100)
3. "The Entertainer" (1974, "Streetlife Serenade," #34 Billboard Hot 100)
4. "New York State of Mind" (1976, "Turnstiles")
5. "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)" (1977, "The Stranger," #17 Billboard Hot 100)
6. "Only The Good Die Young" (1977, "The Stranger," #24 Billboard Hot 100)
7. "My Life" (1978, "52nd Street," #3 Billboard Hot 100)
8. "Big Shot" (1978, "52nd Street," #14 Billboard Hot 100)
9. "You May Be Right" (1980, "Glass Houses," #7 Billboard Hot 100)
10. "It's Still Rock and Roll To Me" (1980, "Glass Houses," #1 Billboard Hot 100)
11. "Say Goodbye To Hollywood" (Live) (1980, "Songs In The Attic," #17 Billboard Hot 100)
12. "Allentown" (1982, "The Nylon Curtain," #17 Billboard Hot 100)
13. "Pressure" (1982, "The Nylon Curtain," #20 Billboard Hot 100)
14. "The Longest Time" (1983, "An Innocent Man," #14 Billboard Hot 100)
15. "Tell Her About It" (1983, "An Innocent Man," #1 Billboard Hot 100)
16. "A Matter of Trust" (1986, "The Bridge," #10 Billboard Hot 100)
17. "We Didn't Start The Fire" (1989, "Storm Front," #1 Billboard Hot 100)
18. "I Go To Extremes" (1989, "Storm Front," #6 Billboard Hot 100)
19. "The River of Dreams" (1993, "River of Dreams," #3 Billboard Hot 100)

Among the upcoming releases in the Columbia/Legacy Billy Joel 40th anniversary commemoration will be "Billy Joel: Live at Shea Stadium," a 2 CD/DVD and stand-alone Blu-ray edition of Billy Joel's historic 2008 Shea Stadium concerts, a Legacy Edition of the 1973 "Piano Man" album, a "Complete Albums Collection" featuring 14 of Billy Joel's original albums with a bonus disc collecting 16 non-album tracks and more.

Harmonix is planning to release a dozen Billy Joel songs as downloadable content for "Rock Band 3," marking the first appearance of the artist's work in a music game.

Billy Joel told USA Today that he's never allowed his music to appear in a game before. So what changed his mind? An episode of NBC's "The Office."

That episode featured a section in which the characters mention a "Rock Band" featuring Billy Joel. Referring to that episode, "the critic wrote something like, 'God forbid that ever should happen," Billy Joel said. "So I called my people and said, 'Get me (on) that 'Rock Band' game.' Then I wrote the critic, saying that every time I get a check, I'll give him a little nod."

No word on what the twelve songs might be, but "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)," "We Didn't Start The Fire" and "Piano Man" seem pretty likely.

New York may no longer have Shea Stadium, but it does have native son Billy Joel. And the documentary that captures the "Piano Man"'s goodbye concerts to the Mets' former home is coming to the Ziegfeld Theatre tonight for a one-time showing before a theatrical run begins October 29th, 2010 at the Cinema Village, as well as theatres in Westchester and on Long Island.

But the rollicking documentary movie, directed by Paul Crowder, isn't just a concert film of the two shows Joel played in July 2008 as a send-off to the beloved "dump" of Flushing Meadows. It's a fast-moving cruise through Queens history as well as Billy Joel's own story. It's filled with clips from games and Joel concerts, not to mention that Beatles moment.

Former Amazin' Mets players including Darryl Strawberry, Mike Piazza, Keith Hernandez weigh in, among others. From Billy Joel's life, insiders and friends including ex-wife Christie Brinkley and daughter Alexa Ray Joel are heard from. Alec Baldwin, another Long Island native, narrates.

Billy Joel is featured in a video posted recently by the "Better Block Project." The organization works to improve neighborhoods one block at a time by involving community members, and associates began making an effort to do that in Oyster Bay, New York, this year.

As the "one night only” offering came to a close, friends and fans shared their delight on Facebook and Twitter, as the film's distribution team pulled an "all-nighter," hatching plans for a extended run, intent on adding more "plays," in more cities across the United States.

Like the first "Last Play at Shea" live event at Shea Stadium back in 2008, which sold-out in 30 minutes, prompting a second "Last Play at Shea" which was quickly added to meet demand, the film is also enjoying its own unbridled interest. Simply stated, the event, "The Last Play at Shea," was just too big for one night! It appears that this historical tribute to a sports legends and a music shrine, "The Last Play at Shea," requires a few more plays across the country given its triumphant reception and request for more viewings in the months to come.

Most years, the World Series makes Mets fans wistful. With rare exception, the team will have played its last game weeks earlier, often in dispiriting fashion. The falling leaves and chillier weather are reminders that spring training - and hope for a fresh start - are months away.

With little in the present to inspire them, Mets fans look to the past: appreciating Nolan Ryan's achievements in 1969 and 2010; cheering quietly for Jeff Francouer to succeed in Texas after failing in Flushing; and remembering happier times at Shea Stadium, the team's home for 45 years, which was torn down to make way for Citi Field.

So I was expecting fuzzy flashbacks the other night when I watched "The Last Play at Shea," a new documentary built ostensibly around Billy Joel's concerts in 2008, the final musical performances at the old stadium.

I initially expected a concert film. Instead, the film goes in several directions at once: part history of Shea Stadium (complete with grainy footage of The Beatles and blooper reels from the 1960s Mets), part concert movie (plenty of crowd shots) and part Billy Joel biography, including interviews with the man himself.

But as the 95-minute movie rolled on, I came away with a more subtle appreciation of what Shea Stadium meant not just to Mets fans and the music world, but to New Yorkers, especially those living on Long Island.

Billy Joel, it turns out, was a great choice to tell the story of Long Island's postwar suburban sprawl, which paralleled Shea Stadium's rise and fall. His life, we learn, traced the growth of bedroom communities like Hicksville and Levittown. Coming of age in the 1960s, he fell in love with rock and roll. The Beatles concert at Shea Stadium in 1965 proved to be a watershed in music history and in Billy Joel's life.

There is a brief history lesson outlining the vision of Robert Moses, who saw Long Island as an Eden for the masses eager to escape the cramped city. Billy Joel's father joined the exodus. Moses wanted Shea Stadium to be their Roman Colosseum.

There is enough newsreel footage of the Mets to please old fans, and cameos by Tom Seaver, Keith Hernandez and other star players. The film also features accounts of the rags to riches to rags teams from the 1960s through the 1970s, the dominant 1980s clubs that owned New York, and a moving interview with Mike Piazza about the first home game played after the attacks on September 11th, 2001.

The bulk of the film, though, is about Billy Joel, the childhood friends who stuck with him and, in some cases, ripped him off; the personal insecurities that led to his divorces and a serious drinking problem; and his music, which does as good a job as any of describing life on Long Island.

Among all this, there are scenes from the concerts that provide a soundtrack to the narrative. The music is familiar, and it is amplified by stars like Roger Daltrey, Tony Bennett, and Paul McCartney, who returned for the farewell concerts. Billy Joel seemed amazed at what was happening on stage, and admitted that he was on an emotional high for weeks afterward.

Shea Stadium looms large in the film, but is ultimately just a giant prop, not a beloved stadium like, perhaps, Wrigley Field. The closest the filmmakers get to giving the steel-and-concrete stadium a heartbeat is via Pete Flynn, the head groundskeeper at Shea Stadium, who has seen it all.

In the end, Shea Stadium is what I guess it really was: a largely impersonal building where people in the New York metropolitan area went to rub shoulders, get a taste of the city and see the best the world had to offer, including music acts like Billy Joel.

Back in July of 2008, Billy Joel played the last concerts at Shea Stadium before the place was torn down. Now there's a new documentary, called "The Last Play at Shea," that not only chronicles those historic shows, but also looks at the history of the stadium itself.

This is not a concert film, even though you will find many snippets of popular Billy Joel songs interspersed throughout the movie. What this is, is a thoroughly engaging, completely entertaining New York history lesson, that shows us some of the landmark events that took place at Shea Stadium over its five decades.

The first stadium rock concert, ever held, took place at Shea Stadium and it starred The Beatles.

Paul McCartney was a surprise guest at the Billy Joel concert and he appropriately closed the show.

It was New York master builder Robert Moses who was the catalyst in getting a stadium built in Flushing Meadows in the first place. Utilizing tons of terrific archival footage and interesting, newly created animation, the filmmakers look at how the Mets came to be after the city's loss of the Dodgers to Los Angeles.

Highlights of the Mets' history at Shea Stadium are included. Many former players are on hand, commenting on what it was like to play there.

The other story, that gets just as much play here and is equally fascinating for any fan, is the history of Billy Joel. How this Bronx born, Long Island raised, working class kid rose to the top of the music world.

It's all juxtaposed against the backdrop of New York and marvelously shows us how the city's fiscal crisis and subsequent decay, back in the 1970s and its ultimate rise echoes and influences Billy Joel's wonderful music.

If you're a Met, Jet, or Billy Joel fan, or a lover of New York history, this is for you. In fact, it's a home run.

Billy Joel rocked the boat with his maybe girlfriend earlier this week - taking her on a pimp-ass yacht ride down the Hudson River in upstate New York.

According to reports, the mystery woman is an executive at Morgan Stanley in New York City - so girl obviously has experience hitting the mother lode.

As for the boat - "Captain Jack" was not at the helm...we hope.