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Chelsea coffee shop closes doors

"How do you want your beans -- black or red," asked Jehnny Navarro, owner of Sucelt Coffee Shop in Chelsea. "Do you want your rice yellow or white?"

On any other day, those would have been routine questions, but this was no regular day -- Christmas Eve was the last time they would ever be asked at the restaurant. Sucelt, the Latin American eatery her father began in 1976 that could seat only...

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