Another Closing

[ManhattanKnight]

Li-lac Chocolates, one of the Village's oldest and most delightful fixtures, has announced that, after more than 82 years, it is closing its Christopher Street store and kitchen at the end of this month (but reopening at 8th Avenue and Jane Street). Only a few weeks ago, its new landlord was quoted in The Villager as saying that he was prepared to offer a new lease on terms that would allow Li-lac to remain. That, apparently, didn't happen. http://www.tomizawa.co.jp/ny/images/ny200401_1.jpg

[NewYorkYankee]

Atleast they are relocationg.

[billyblancoNYC]

Sad, but they're not dead. Plus, they're in the Grand Central Market.

[Ninjahedge]

Joe's Pizza on Carmine and Bleeker is moving out.

Landlord upped the rent and OUT they go.

Who the hell is going to be able to use that little hole in the corner of the wall?

I will miss the sicillian (and yes, I know thay have a sister store down the street, but it just is not the same....)

[Marty]

Is Little Italie being taken over? how much longer before it's gone?

[Ninjahedge]

LI is moving out.

Chinatown is expanding.

But it is understandable, Chinatown, despite it's uniqueness and cultural experiences is disgustingly crowded and dirty. A neighborhood that has dried fruits next door to a store gutting fishes and having garbage pails filled with live frogs on a street where the potholes hold the week-old drain water from the store owners spraying the fish guts off their sidewalk....

Chinatown is nudging LI out.

And LI is just packing up and moving to NJ.

The ones that are left are nice, but it is hard for me to justify paying $10 for a bowl of pasta that I can pretty much whip up myself at home.

NY is ever changing, and it is a shame it looses cultures now and again (German....) but what can you do?

[NYatKNIGHT]

Though, I think Mulberry Street will remain a token Little Italy in Manhattan.

[billyblancoNYC]

Little Italy should remain much as it does now, 1 or 2 blocks with not many Italian residents (at least under 65). Chinatown's expansion will be halted as the increasing "hipness" of the area will turn it into an expanded NoLita, etc.

Italians are dispersed throughout the city and suburbs, but Arthur Ave. in the Bronx and Bensonhurst, for now, are more real "Little Italy's."

Chinese have set up shop in Flushing, Queens, and Sunset Park, Brooklyn. I assume that this will grow in the future, especially with C'town shrinking a bit.

Who knows, really. NY is always changing and predictions are just that really.

[GowanusGuy]

If you want to experience an authentic "little Italy" then come on over here to Carroll Gardens - but hurry up, its changing too, and fast.

[billyblancoNYC]

If you want to experience an authentic "little Italy" then come on over here to Carroll Gardens - but hurry up, its changing too, and fast.

"Real" Italian sections are Carroll Gardens, Bensonhurst, Morris Park (BX), Arthur Ave (not the residents, the shops), most of Staten Island, Whitestone (Queens), Howard Beach (Queens). There are more areas that still have a lot (more) of Italian in Queens and Brooklyn and the Bronx, but that may be changing too.

[NewYorkYankee]

Come to mention, I did notice quite a few Italians from S.I.