What do you get when you mix fast-food roast beef and one of Brooklyn’s most beautiful eating spaces?
Apparently, agita.
After just seven months in business, Arby’s has called it quits at the landmarked Fulton Street brownstone that once hosted legendary Gage & Tollner restaurant, the real estate blog Brownstoner today reported. Workers were in the process of moving equipment out.
Arby’s wasn’t the first fast-food joint to operate out of the site, that in its heyday as Gage & Tollner served entertainers like Mae West. Shortly after the 125-year-old business closed in 2004, TGI Friday’s occupied the space until 2007.
Gage & Tollner’s origin goes back to Charles Gage opening an “eating house” in 1879 at 303 Fulton Street. In 1880, Eugene Tollner joined him as a partner, and the restaurant’s name became Gage & Tollner. They relocated to the current building in 1892.
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