New City Microcreamery opens with new flavors, a new look and sentimentality
Willy Connors|December 8, 2025|Business, The Heights, Top
New City Microcreamery opened recently, drawing students and alumni inside with new flavors, but comparisons to its predecessor still hold, and, according to Johnny Koczela, it doesn’t feel the same as White Mountain Creamery.
“My reaction is sort of a bittersweet sensation,” said Koczela, BCSSW ’26 and CSTM ’26. “I think it is perhaps a loss for the BC community.”
White Mountain had served students with scoops of ice cream since 1983, before transitioning to new management under Peter and George Coufos in 1993. Coufos announced to employees that the store would be closing on Nov. 14.
The announcement drew flocks of students, alumni, and Newton residents to the store, forming long lines and forcing the store to close two days early on Nov. 21.
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