By Katarina Hybenova

Life Cafe is closing down permanently on June 30, 2012. Yesterday, Kathy Life, the owner of Life Cafe, a cult Bushwick eatery and watering hole announced it on their website.   Kathy and her husband, now in their sixties are being involuntarily sent to the earlier retirement by their landlord who decided not to extend their lease. “…the landlord of my thriving Bushwick café told me that he was not going to extend my lease,” Kathy writes on the website. 

Interestingly, new owners will immediately start operation of a cafe of another name in the same premises. They will add a couple of new items on the menu, but generally they don’t plan on tempering with the genius loci of the place, Life Cafe website informs.