Streetlevel: Amy Ruth's for Gage & Tollner Spot
A couple of days after we wondered out loud what was going on with the old Gage & Tollner space, it was reported that a new tenant had indeed been found. And now a sign in the window at 374 Fulton Street confirms it: Amy Ruth’s, a well-known Harlem restaurant, will be bringing its soul…
A couple of days after we wondered out loud what was going on with the old Gage & Tollner space, it was reported that a new tenant had indeed been found. And now a sign in the window at 374 Fulton Street confirms it: Amy Ruth’s, a well-known Harlem restaurant, will be bringing its soul food to Downtown Brooklyn. The opening could come as soon as the end of the year. How do you think this’ll work?
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not an expert on soul food but wahooooooo to amy ruth coming to brooklyn. I’ve eaten at the one on 116th and have raved about it. line out the door, equal numbers of b/w folks just wanting some yummy food. i had waffles w/ the fried chicken and it was delicious. would go back again and now it’s easier when they come to brooklyn. i don’t think it will be divided by race…just folks wanting something good to eat!
Brooklyn Ron,
G&T folded because Fulton Street Mall is a failed 1970’s poor urban planning wasteland at night with no commercial activity. That’s why TGIF folded too after G&T shut down in 2004. While I wish Amy Ruth’s well, don’t hold high hopes. If they can stick it out until downtown is revitalized and returned to its former vibrant status where people can shop for a variety of goods, both low cost and high quality expensive goods, not just cell phones and hip hop gear, then Amy Ruth’s will do well. Hopefully increased residential presence will help them as well.
Amy Ruth’s, Yuck. I’m Black and I love Soul Food, could someone resurrect MECCA (that was soul food) Amy Ruth’s, YUCK! however I’m sure folks will line up for the sub par food, both Black and White Folks will eat sub par food if there is some cache to an eatery. Unfortunatly Amy Ruth’s has cache. BUT YUCK! EEEWWWWWW! PHEWWWWW! ok I’ve said my peace. Good Luck Carl.
The irony is wonderful. When my family lived in that part of Brooklyn in the (very) early 1900s, black folks could not eat at Gage and Tollner.
Now with downtown Fulton Street having perhaps more African American shoppers than any business strip this side of 125th, G & T finally decides to throw up its hands.
And to Amy Ruth no less.
I can’t wait for its most famous patron Rev. Al Sharpton to come regularly to eat there. And maybe he’ll bring all his Republican friends and his favorite journalists like Bill O’Reilly.
The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership must be overjoyed.
–Brooklyn Ron
I think Amy Ruth’s will do well here. I bet most of the clientele won’t necessarily be area residents. Not those who’d be able to walk their from home anyway. I will hop the Q train from Ditmas Park to patronize them. I’ve driven all the way to Harlem for the fare where the ambience can’t compare to the Gage & Tollner spot.
Hopefully they do better than the briefly lived TGI Fridays at that location.
The Fulton Mall is a product of brain-dead 1970’s urban planning.
It is not a real place.
You can’t catch a cab and have it drop you off in front of the place.
It is a “pedestrian mall”
a cementery at night.
Scary, unattractive, the oposite of what people want.
It isn’t New York. It is like…Cleveland or some other failed city.
Once Fulton Street is restored to a real street, things will change there.
I could never drag my wife to C & T. She did not want to walk in nice shoes and she thought the street was creepy and menacing.
Nothing has changed.
So exciting!
If Applebees is a destination restaurant, then the nabe is in serious need of restaurants!
Applebees – you’re joking!