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Armando's Restaurant Back from Dead in Brooklyn Heights!
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John Del Signore
Published Mar 18, 2009
Modified Mar 18, 2009
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Exactly a year and a day after Brooklyn Heights institution Armando's closed its doors, the Daily News has learned that the beloved neighborhood Italian restaurant will reopen at the same location. After 72 years in business, Armando's called it quits last year and was replaced by the Spicy Pickle sandwich chain. Armando's owner Peter Byros, who also owns the Montague Street building housing the restaurant, tells the News, "[Spicy Pickle] didn't make it; they defaulted on their lease." His daughter Maria will now manage the new incarnation of Armando's, which once upon a time hosted the Dodgers after their games, and other regulars over the years including Norman Mailer, Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller. Maria says, "We're going to keep it in a similar style - Old New York - but freshened up," and Lost City reports that Byros plans to bring back the restaurant's classic neon lobster sign.
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Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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