Iconic Brooklyn Heights' Eatery Armando's Closes After 82 Years

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, NY — A Montague Street eatery frequented by the Brooklyn Dodgers and Norman Mailer closed its doors after 82 years in the neighborhood, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported.

The famed Italian spot Armando's, known for its iconic lobster sign hanging outside 142 Montague St. for decades, shuttered for good recently because the longtime owners sold the building earlier this year, the Daily Eagle reported.

Peter Byros, who owned the spot since 1981, sold the building to real estate agent Uri Koptiev for $7.4 million in February, city records show. The ground-floor restaurant space was put up for lease starting next month for $27,500 a month, according to its real estate listing.

Armando's first opened during the Great Depression in 1936 and became the regular dining spot for the Brooklyn Dodgers after games at Ebbets Field, according to Lost New York.

Famed author Mailer, a longtime Brooklyn Heights resident, was a regular at the spot and Arthur Miller reportedly ate there with Marilyn Monroe when he lived in the neighborhood.

The spot changed hands several times until Byros bought it in the 1980s where it stayed open until 2008, the Brooklyn Paper reported. Byros shuttered the spot — turning off the famed sign — and was replaced by the sandwich chain Spicy Pickle.

The chain didn't last long, eventually defaulting on their lease, so Byros took it over again and reopened Armando's with his daughter, Maria Byros, in charge, the New York Daily News reported.

Owners did not give a reason for the sale or closure of the iconic spot to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

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