Li-Lac Chocolates (original shop)

120 Christopher Street | West Village | built 1883

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1923
George Demetrious opens the first Li-Lac chocolate shop at 120 Christopher Street
George Demetrious, a Greek immigrant who had learned chocolate making in France, started Li-Lac at 120 Christopher Street in 1923. The store's recipes for almond bark, butter crunch and fudge won him a loyal following among his Greenwich Village neighbors. He ran the business until 1975, then handed it to a longtime employee, Marguerite Walt, who sold it in 1978 to Edward Bond.
Source: Village Preservation
2005
Li-Lac Chocolates leaves 120 Christopher Street when the rent grows too high
After more than eight decades on Christopher Street, Li-Lac moved to Jane Street in 2005 because the rent at its original address had become too high. The shop remains on Jane Street today. In 2011 long-time customers Anthony Cirone and Christopher Taylor took over the business, together with chocolatier Anwar Khoder.
Source: Village Preservation

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