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Last week, we declared what we thought was the end of cupcakes. But in the same way that you can’t keep people with no shame down, you can’t keep companies from profiting from hordes of silly tourists who love their cupcakes.

Magnolia, the NYC-based bakery popularized by Sex and the City, has big plans for a large production facility in Harlem that will help distribute to the D.C. area. (Vince Gray has to be thrilled.)

Are Magnolia and other trendy chains like Pinkberry too late to the game in D.C.? (After all, we already have a cupcakery with its own reality show.) Or is it true that everything from New York is better, and we’re missing out on some exceptional cupcakes?