Lobster lovers were excited by the recent news that the price of soft-shelled lobsters is half what it was a year ago, because of a booming lobster population brought on by the warm winter. (Yay, catastrophic climate change!) Unfortunately, as we warned you, this price drop is mainly restricted to Maine and restaurants selling market price lobster. It will not make a dent in the steep cost of lobster rolls here in NYC, and Susan Povich, the co-owner of the Red Hook Lobster Pound, explains why: