Mamma Lucia's Closes After Nearly 50 Years In Ditmas Park

DITMAS PARK, BROOKLYN — The neighborhood has lost one of the oldest of the old-school Italian restaurants. Mamma Luccia, where opera played, where black-and-white photos of famous Italians covered the walls and where the grandkids served the pasta, has permanently closed.

Signs appeared last week on the front doors of Mamma Lucia, which has rested on the corner of Foster Avenue and East 17th Street for decades.

"We will certainly and without acceptation [sic] miss you all," the owners wrote. "It's been our Pleasure Serving You."

It was not immediately clear when the restaurant had its last day, but the signs were seen on Mamma Lucia's front door Saturday. Patch was unable to reach the restaurant for comment.

Giorgio Migliaccio and his family opened Mamma Lucia's in Brooklyn in 1967 after moving from their home town in Ischia, a small island off the coast of Naples, according to a Brooklyn Reporter profile.

It was a family restaurant: Lucia, Migliaccio's mother, inspired the name, Giorgio was host, his son Luigi cooked and his daughter (also Lucia) helped out where she could, the family told Bklyner.