Are cupcakes the new yogurt? Some may see the sentiment of this graffito found on an electric box at Montana Street at Echo Park Avenue as a foody statement, but perhaps what lies behind it is an alert to the gentrification of this stretch of Echo Park — which saw its first valet parking station in 100 years appear one block away not that long ago.

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