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They're calling it "the piece de resistance" and the new "crown jewel" of Sheepshead Bay. The once dilapidated and grafitti-covered Lundy's restaurant is no longer an eyesore.
The building's facade has been beautified with 45 original paintings and 15 enlarged photographs depicting scenes from the famous restaurant's heyday and the bay area. On Sunday, the neighborhood will celebrate the opening of the Lundy's Outdoor Mural Museum.
The Sheepshead Bay Beautification Program, which brought together nearly three dozen local and foreign artists, schoolchildren from the area and a host of area volunteers to work on the project, plan a 3 p.m. ceremony to pay tribute to neighborhood beautification, community involvement and volunteerism.
The event marks the culmination of almost a year's work.
It is the realization of an idea conceived by Sheepshead Bay resident Peter Romeo, founder of the Sheepshead Bay Beautification Program and coordinator of the project.
Fresh from completing his first volunteer project in which he drew on the skills of carpenters, electricians, painters and others to help renovate the Lefferts Homestead in Prospect Park, Romeo, a lamp restorer, looked around for another project. As he drove to his shop on Coney...