Exactly who to point fingers at when a neighborhood starts to change is not as easily identifiable as one may hope. Such is the case with chocolatier Li-Lac, an 81-year-old New York institution that just took up residence in Sunset Park's Industry City. "We're not an unknown corporate entity owned by unnamed people in faraway places," one of the company's co-owners said following a boycott over their October opening led by a community group fearing neighborhood gentrification. In fact, the small chocolate company itself was priced out of its longstanding West Village locale. Photo by Nathan Kensinger [NYT; previously]
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