# Merrick Family Eye Care, Merrick NY: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ny/merrick/merrick-family-eye-care-merrick-ny. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-10-30.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ny/merrick/merrick-family-eye-care-merrick-ny

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## In short

Merrick Family Eye Care is an eye care center. Its AI Score is 58 of 100, which is fair.

What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Eye care center |
| Address | 2126 Merrick Mall, Merrick, NY 11566, USA |
| Hours | Mon 10 AM to 8 PM · Tue to Wed 10 AM to 5 PM · Closed Thu · Fri 9 AM to 4 PM · Sat 9 AM to 2 PM · Closed Sun |
| Phone | (516) 546-3227 |
| Rating | 4.9 across 165 reviews on Google |
| Updated | October 30, 2026 |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 2126 Merrick Mall, Merrick, NY 11566, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Merrick Family Eye Care is located at 2126 Merrick Mall Merrick NY 11566. We are next door to the Outback restaurant. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM · Tue to Wed 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM · Thu Closed · Fri 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM · Sat 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM · Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Merrick Family Eye Care | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (516) 546-3227 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Comprehensive eye exam | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Contact lenses | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Enchroma glasses | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Frames | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Frames collection | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Myopia management | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Prescription shooting glasses | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Ranger shooting glasses | From their website | Business website |
| Links | Facebook | https://facebook.com/captreeeyecare | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Website | http://www.drbenzoni.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

These are the 7 services Merrick Family Eye Care offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ranger shooting glasses |  |  |  | From their website |
| Frames collection |  |  |  | From their website |
| Comprehensive eye exam |  |  |  | From their website |
| Prescription shooting glasses |  |  |  | From their website |
| Frames |  |  |  | From their website |
| Contact lenses |  |  |  | From their website |
| Myopia management |  |  |  | From their website |


### Known for

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## The team

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## Visiting Merrick Family Eye Care

Address: 2126 Merrick Mall, Merrick, NY 11566, USA. Phone: (516) 546-3227. Hours: Mon 10 AM to 8 PM · Tue to Wed 10 AM to 5 PM · Closed Thu · Fri 9 AM to 4 PM · Sat 9 AM to 2 PM · Closed Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "Merrick Family Eye Care is located at 2126 Merrick Mall Merrick NY 11566. We are next door to the Outback restaurant."


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Taka Asian Fusion | Asian fusion restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Island Empanada of Merrick | Restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Paddy Power Pub | Irish pub | 1 min walk |
| Montana Brothers Of Merrick | Italian restaurant | 2 min walk |
| Sanshindo Ramen | Ramen restaurant | 2 min walk |
| Sushi Ko | Japanese restaurant | 2 min walk |


## Reputation

4.9 average across 165 reviews: Google 165. (Confirmed, read July 16, 2026.)

 (AI guess, from 165 reviews.)


### What people like

- Friendly and professional staff
- Great experience for children


### What people do not like

- Scheduling and appointment mix-ups
- Lack of communication about additional fees
- Inconsistent service when selecting glasses


### Press

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### Awards

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## Questions people ask


### Why do people rate Merrick Family Eye Care?


### Anything this place is known for doing well?


### prices round here, anyone got a number


### walk in here, or is it appointment only?


### last update from here was when?


### numbing at Merrick Family Eye Care, do you have to ask for it?


### is Merrick Avenue Optometry: Dry Eye any better


### parking at Merrick Family Eye Care, where does everyone put the car?


### bad experiences at Merrick Family Eye Care, anyone?


### best optometrist in Merrick


### Finance options, anyone used them?


### Open Sundays here?


### what else is on Merrick Mall around Merrick Family Eye Care?


### who is actually holding the needle here?


### people keep recommending Merrick Family Eye Care, what for?


### opening hours at Merrick Family Eye Care, what are they these days?


### Booking a consult here, what happens?


## What AI gets wrong about Merrick Family Eye Care

We ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini about Merrick Family Eye Care. These are the answers that don’t match this page.

ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026.

| Fact | What AI says | What this page says |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Address | ChatGPT, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026: 0 Merrick Avenue | 2126 Merrick Mall, Merrick, NY 11566, USA |
| Address | Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026: 0 Merrick Avenue | 2126 Merrick Mall, Merrick, NY 11566, USA |


## The AI Score: 58 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Merrick eye care centers run 39 to 61. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Merrick Family Eye Care scores 58, above the Merrick average of 50. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Merrick Family Eye Care |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 70 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Good |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 28 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 67 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Good |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 83 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 51 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 84 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 69 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Good |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 59 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology

How AI decides what to say about an eye care center: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-eye-surgery. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-eye-surgery


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Merrick Family Eye Care |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Merrick Family Eye Care | MedicalBusiness | #business | http://www.drbenzoni.com/ | Subject of this page |
| Merrick, New York | City | #city |  | City Merrick Family Eye Care is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the eye care centers in Merrick, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best eye care centers in Merrick: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ny/merrick/eye-care-center
- Best businesses in Merrick: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ny/merrick


### Nearby

- /new-york: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ny/new-york
- /poughkeepsie: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ny/poughkeepsie
- /middletown: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ny/middletown
- /flushing: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ny/flushing
- /kingston: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ny/kingston
- /huntington: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ny/huntington


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in New York: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ny


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJoQqhyqV-wokRP1JVJ9CkO5A (accessed Jul 16, 2026)
- [2] drbenzoni.com, https://www.drbenzoni.com/ranger-shooting-glasses.html (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [3] drbenzoni.com, https://www.drbenzoni.com/comprehensive-eye-exam.html (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [4] drbenzoni.com, https://www.drbenzoni.com/contact-lens-exam.html (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [5] drbenzoni.com, https://www.drbenzoni.com/frames.html (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [6] drbenzoni.com, https://www.drbenzoni.com/articles/myopia-management.html (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [7] AI engine output: ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 18, 2026)