Hostess is closing its 130-year-old Wonder Bread plant in Jamaica come January in a move that could cost 200 workers their jobs and many more locals their neighborhood icon, according to the Daily News. Wonder Bread first came to Queens in the 1870s, and modernizing the plant at this point would be too “difficult and expensive,” Hostess explained. The popular Wonder Bread outlet store, which still sells discount loaves of bread for between 89 and 99 cents each, will be salvaged and will move to another Hostess site nearby once the Jamaica factory sells, the company said. Neighbors and loyal staffers were predictably nostalgic at news of the shuttering; one 36-year veteran of the factory proclaimed it “the end of an era.” [NYDN]