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Centre Street is not nearly as busy as Brookline and Newbury Street, where JP Licks and Emack and Bolio’s stores coexist in peace and pro.t. As he relished a cone outside the JP Licks on a hot July day, Mike Berlan, 27, said he doubted both stores would survive. “Maybe for a year,” he said, “but after that, somebody’s got to go.” Larry Cronin, chairman of the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council, said he wondered what Adam Goldberg was thinking when he came before the council in the spring, seeking support for permits. “I did say to him: ‘Why are you trying to go head-to-head with JP Licks? You’re going to lose,’ ” Cronin said. Now he thinks the shops go together. “They’re like bookends.” Lisa Goldberg, 33, said JP Licks should remain the local ice cream parlor. The Goldbergs want their store to be the coffeehouse, the niche they filled with their first Roslindale store in 2000. They hope to offer open-mike poetry and acoustic music, but must still win over neighbors who opposed live ent
