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Historic restaurant Lundy’s—whose home is a sprawling stucco building in Sheepshead Bay—will reopen as a 19,000 square foot gourmet market called Cherry Hill. The building’s owner David Isaev, who has been met with measures of opposition and support during the renovation process, previewed the property to the community on Tuesday. Blogger Gerristen Beach has photos, and Sheepshead Bites has a recap, including this bit of intel about an accompanying restaurant: building manager Anthony Kelley “mentioned that the market will also have a restaurant. Although he did not mention the names of the chefs, he said that two who worked in New York restaurants had been hired to work at Cherry Hill—pointing to the menus they have already developed.”
Lundy’s humble origins stem from a single bucket of clams raked from the bay sometime around 1904. However, the Lundy family at that time owned land, clam beds, and thriving fish markets. By 1907, the twelve-year-old Irving Lundy had built a working clam bar on stilts. Lundy’s on Emmons Avenue was built in 1934. Irving Lundy, once the wealthiest man in Sheepshead Bay, died in 1977, by which time he had become a recluse, sharing his estate with fourteen Irish Setters. The restaurant closed in 1979 (or 1977) and reopened in the 90s with a different format. By the time of its 2007 closure, Lundy’s had changed hands and reopened multiple times and these intermittent periods of closure had led to a myriad of cosmetic and structural issues. The building was given landmark status by the NYLPC in 1992.
Since the 1930s, the common denominator of each Lundy’s incarnation has been clam bisque, clam chowder, and half-shells. It is unclear whether “Whole Foods-style” Cherry Hill, set to open this spring, will follow suit.
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I remember when Lundy's also had a teeny mall inside with jewelry, candy and toy stores. I loved walking there from my house as a kid to get a treat every once and awhile from my parents. I ate at the restaurant once too; pretty great fish, but it was always too pricey for my family to afford. We opted for (now gone) Mario & Luigi's.
A day late, but . . . I remember Lundy's, too. Granted, it was from their 1990s/early 2000s incarnation. They had an amazing Sunday brunch, and the place was as charming as can be. I'm bummed that my husband never got to see it as it was.
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Birth: Feb. 7, 1897
Brooklyn
Kings County
New York, USA
Death: Sep. 8, 1977
Brooklyn
Kings County
New York, USA [Edit Dates]
Restaurateur, whose Lundy Brothers restaurant in Sheepshead Bay closed in 1979 (a scaled down version reopened on the spot in 1995). On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 8:43 AM, BRUCE HIGGINS wrote: The double wedding of the two Lundy brothers to the two Gladding sisters is a tier 2 in the findagrave.com tier, the Gladding sisters were Irving's parents, my great grandmother through Gladys Lundy higgins. found a picture of the 2000 Lundy's Restaurant , where it degenerated to a sidewalk vendor location. I have stuff to share in one load, that makes my contact with them a single instance or two, trying to catch the tree up with the family history, through the name Charles Courson Lundy there is a vet buried in Syosset, may be a descendant of Charles. An ERIC COURSEN was one of the three theives in the 11mill theft, relative? For the GermanGenealogy@optonline.net, I will tell what I know, maybe they can track the other Lundys. The tree mentioned Jerome Lundy, but little else. the death of Stanley and Clayton in 1920 ,coupled with the death of Frederick and Athenaise Lundy, the births of every one in tier 4, which includes my father, Gladys' son, tier 5, including me, tier 6, including my kids, etc. can you guys help?