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My first apartment in New York was on West 79th Street. There was a great bagel place on the corner of Broadway and 80th, which I routinely visited on Sunday mornings. Incredible bagels. New Yorkers know what I’m talking about: H&H Bagels. They closed in 2011 because of tax evasion issues and other shady stuff.
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I’m sorry I never took photos of the inside of that 79th street store. It was really bare bones, nothing but bagels, tubs of cream cheese and a cooler for soda and juice. No tables. Sometimes the line was really long, going outside the door, they are so good. I always felt intimidated when I went in, thinking I had to order very fast.
This was the way they displayed the bagels— I think this photo below that I found on the internet was taken in that 79th store.
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Apparently, the maker of the iconic bagels never really fully went out of business, and now there’s one in the new train station, Moynahan Hall. The drawing above was done from a photo I took this morning there! It’s been a holiday tradtion in my family ever since I lived in that neighborhood decades ago to have lox and bagels on Christmas morning. I always try to get H&H Bagels because, well, they are the best.
I got a dozen everything.
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