Confirmed: Arby's Planning to Take Gage & Tollner Space
Looks like we were right: A fast food restaurant is indeed trying to take over the former Gage & Tollner space at 374 Fulton Street on the Fulton Mall in Downtown Brooklyn. The Daily News today reports that the chain known for its roast beef sandwiches submitted an application to the Landmarks Preservation Commission in…
Looks like we were right: A fast food restaurant is indeed trying to take over the former Gage & Tollner space at 374 Fulton Street on the Fulton Mall in Downtown Brooklyn. The Daily News today reports that the chain known for its roast beef sandwiches submitted an application to the Landmarks Preservation Commission in January to modify the historic interior. We’re keeping everything in place, and anything we move in will be nonpermanent and easy to move out, said Raymond Chera, the franchisee behind the project. It will probably be the most beautiful Arby’s ever. And you better get used to the idea of being surrounded by Arby’s: Chera says he plans to open 41 locations around the city over the next decade.
Arby’s to Move into Famed Gage & Tollner Digs [NY Daily News] GMAP
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Photo by Dania Hurley
Perhaps they should just make it a museum and have people pay to see mannequins eating lunch. No landmark headaches.
Oh man. Arbys? We al know fast food is low quality, over processed glop but Arbys? My friend worked at Arbys in college. “Roast beef’ my ass. Their ‘meat’ came in a giant bag of liquified goo which was then boiled to make it harden up for slicing.
Enjoy!!
I would love Arby’s in NYC (although wasnt there one in the village that closed?) but renting this space, with tons of extra costs and headaches due to its landmark status doesnt bode well for the geniuses that are making these business plans.
“I read somewhere (curbed, maybe?) that Wal-Mart is taking over the Virgin space at Union Square. ”
That was a false rumor.
Don’t even know what to say about Arby’s.
Don’t eat fast food, so it doesn’t really affect me.
By the way, am I the only one that had noticed the arby’s “hat” logo on the commercials looks like a cock? (to be blunt)
Don’t mind chains. Love fast food. But Arby’s blows.
I accidentally ate at a Red Lobster south of Times Square once. The lobster tail appeared to be comprised of polypropylene. My dining partner’s fish was cooked under the razed earth policy.
Wal-Mart in Union Square? Is that true? Hate me if you must, buy hooray! I love Wal-Mart (employee trampling aside).
I really think that Arbys will fail. That is a big space. The chain has moved away from the old roast beef into “fresh’ sandwiches that are anything but (sort of like the late Spicy Pickel).
How cool woudl be to have an old-fashioned southern style cafeteria there?