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Ed. note: The headline read in the Bronx but it is actually downtown Brooklyn.

Amy Ruth’s, the Harlem soul food restaurant, will be cooking it up on the Fulton Mall by the end of the year, the Daily News has learned.

The restaurant, famous for a chicken and waffles dish named after the Rev. Al Sharpton, will take over the spot occupied by Gage and Tollner for 122 years, and briefly afterward by T.G.I. Friday’s.

The Fulton Mall location will be the second in the city for 8-year-old Amy Ruth’s, which scored 22 on food in the latest Zagat Survey of New York City Restaurants.

However, founder and chef Carl Redding is no longer at the restaurant he named for his grandmother, according to Zagat. On Friday, those involved with bringing Amy Ruth’s to Brooklyn declined any comments on their plans.

Acting as spokesman for the restaurant, Harlem-based literary agent Lawrence Jordan would only say: “We’ll be having a press conference soon.”

At the W. 116th St. location, just about every dish on the menu is named after a Harlem politician, artist, businessman or preacher.

Will the Brooklyn restaurant have chicken wings named for rapper and actor Ludacris or will Def Jam president and CEO Jay-Z take the honor? Will Harlem-born author Jill Nelson manage to keep her name on the barbecued chicken or will the dish be renamed for Brooklyn’s Iyanla Vanzant?

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