Amy Ruths: not happening in Brooklyn.

Awwwwww.

Amy Ruth’s May Not Be Coming to Brooklyn
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
by Linda Collins ([email hidden]), published online 08-19-2008

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — This newspaper has learned that the famed Harlem soul food restaurant, Amy Ruth’s, which signed a lease for the former Gage & Tollner restaurant space at 372-374 Fulton St. on the Fulton Mall in Downtown Brooklyn last October, may not be coming to Brooklyn after all.

(more at the site, including mention of a marshalls notice!)

Nooooooooooooo!

This makes me sad

Me too. I love soul food, and was thrilled that I wouldn't have to go allllll the way to Harlem for an Amy Ruth's fix! Dammit!

This deal was probably a victim of the downturn in the economy. The bank might not have been willing to give Amy Ruth's loans to open a new location. It's a shame because I think they would have had a big audience on Fulton Mall particularly with the Brooklyn Tabernacle mega church just nearby.

Brooklyn needs some slammin soul food!