NY says historic coffee firm pollutes with aromas

Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - In what could be the end of an aromatic era, one of America's oldest coffee merchants might have to pull the plug on its state-of-the-art roaster after New York City fined it for polluting the air with coffee odors.

Brooklyn's 163 year-old Gillies Coffee Co. was cited this month for violating the air pollution control code in response to complaints lodged last June by a neighbor.

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