Beacon Hill market to get just third family owning since it opened more than a century ago

The Boston Licensing Board today approved Stuart Eicoff's plan to sell his Beacon Capitol Market, 32 Myrtle St. on Beacon Hill, to Lalit Verma, who also owns the Wild Duck liquor store on Massachusetts Avenue in the Back Bay.

If also approved by the state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission, Verma will be just the third family name to be listed on the ownership records of the small market, which has a full liquor license. The store was started in 1916 by the Goldberg brothers. Some 60 years later, the last surviving Goldberg brother sold the market to Eicoff's father, Daniel, who later handed it down to his son.

At a hearing yesterday, Verma's attorney, Joseph Tarby, read a letter from Eicoff saying Verma would prove a good steward of the store's long history, "in this neighborhood that deserves no less."