The Ben & Jerry’s ice cream shop on Lark Street in Albany, a fixture for at least 30 years, is closed for the season and perhaps for good.

Brian Alweiss, who owns the building at 250 Lark, tells me there has been a water leak into the Ben & Jerry’s space since last spring, but he has not been able to identify its source and fix the problem as a result of a dispute with the owner of an adjacent property over access to the rear of the building. Consequently, Ben & Jerry’s headquarters refused to sanction the shop staying open.

“We’d like them to come back, and we hope they do, but at this point we just don’t know,” says Alweiss, who does not operate the franchise.