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.

Robert F. Hebron IV of Ingram & Hebron Realty, who negotiated the lease on behalf of Amy Ruth’s, confirmed to the Eagle on Monday a rumor that the deal had fallen through, but said he did not know any more than that and had been unsuccessful in reaching Amy Ruth’s owners .

“There was a signed lease,� he said. “But as of this morning there is a marshall’s notice on the door that the landlord was reclaiming the space.�

Local residents were looking forward to having such a renowned and well established restaruant coming to Downtown Brooklyn, Hebron said.

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