Murder was on the menu.
So were the Yankees and next year’s presidential race.
The Lindenwood Diner in East New York, Brooklyn, has played host to surveillance of the Gotti clan, the bust of a diabolical JFK terror plot, and famous customers like Hillary Rodham Clinton, Rudy Giuliani and Ray Kelly.
“Whether you are the pope or the godfather, it has easy access,” said the Rev. Paul Owings, dining on a plate of spaghetti and turkey meat at the Linden Boulevard restaurant. “It’s got good food, and it has reasonable prices.”
Manager Frank Ramirez credited the menu of Latin, Italian and Caribbean dishes for its diverse crowd.
“Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and his wife [Veronica] came by after a Yankee playoff game,” Ramirez recalled.
Clinton and Giuliani have been to the red-and-blue retro eatery, too.
The diner appeared this year in the campy film “Romance and Cigarettes,” directed by John Turturro. The flick features a wacky ensemble of A-list actors including James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet and Steve Buscemi.
The glamorized coffee shop has been even more of a draw for cops and crooks.
In June, while sitting in the diner, a stocky government informant got an alleged al Qaeda wannabe to spill the beans on a plot to blow up the fuel lines at nearby JFK Airport.
“I don’t know why they come. I think it has something to do with the location,” said waitress Sharon Fitzmaurice, 52, who served the government snitch coffee and cheesecake, and the alleged terrorist plotter, Russell Defreitas, a salmon dinner. “He [the informant] didn’t eat. He was talking.
“I didn’t feel anything was wrong. They didn’t act suspicious,” added the restaurant veteran. “You just don’t know who is who.”
The stainless-steel food haven also served as an important setting in the 1998 trial against John A. “Junior” Gotti, when the government bugged a corner booth that the mob boss fancied when he dined with his uncle Peter.