The Love Story Behind A Beloved Forest Hills Chocolatier: Report

FOREST HILLS, QUEENS — Mark Libertini and Rachel Kellner's love story helped save Aigner Chocolates, a Forest Hills institution that the couple now co-own.

In 2015, Libertini was driving down Metropolitan Avenue and stopped at the chocolate shop on 71st Road to buy Kellner some sweets, but quickly realized that the business was shuttered, according to a story on the shop's website.

He called the number on the door, and less than a month later — after the eponymous Aigner family taught the couple all that they learned in three-generations of chocolate making — Aigner Chocolates was back up-and-running with Libertini and Kellner at the helm (all in time for Halloween).

"It was always his dream to open a chocolate shop," Kellner told ABC7 of her husband, who opened several restaurants (one of which the duo met at) before taking over the chocolatier.

"We need to stop and kind of remind ourselves that this chocolate shop is a love story," she told the outlet, "and our dreams have come true."

Read the full ABC7 report, 'The sweet love story that saved a legendary NYC chocolate shop,' here.