Lundy's Restaurant
It was acquired two decades later by the publicly traded Tam Restaurant Group, which in 1995 reopened it as a smaller venue in the same location. In December 2004, a family-owned business, The Players Club, headed by restaurateur Afrodite Dimitroulakos, announced it had acquired Lundy s from the Tam Restaurant Group. Lundy, with several family members, subsequently built the formal restaurant, located at 1901 Emmons Avenue, in 1934. Lundy s closed in 1977, following Irving Lundy s death.A local institution, it operated from 1934 or 1935 (accounts vary) and then again from 1997 to early 2007. At the turn of the 20th century, Irving Lundy started a business selling clams out of a pushcart. Lundy s Restaurant, also known as Lundy Brothers Restaurant, was a historic American seafood restaurant in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
By 1907, he had opened a clam bar built on stilts over Sheepshead Bay, closing it when the City built a new bulkhead at that location. The space now houses the Lundy s Landing Shopping Plaza Lundy s in its heyday was reported to be the largest restaurant in the United States, seating, per various reports, 2,400 .
