I do not know about you but I’ve yet to find a comparable bagel
My morning ritual before jogging a few miles either at RSP or Morningside....Yep I’m a risk taker on that one lol
Was chemex coffee pour with fresh ground beans from mcnultys on Christopher and a cinnamon raisin bagel from h&h with room temp anchor butter from New Zealand
You know those old floor throughs in pre wars then had no AC
They were just building the new light brick high rises at Broadway and 96 then
Anyhow
Life today is sure different for me
New York girls...especially the Jewish ones sure liked tall southern guys with manners
I had a good time I cannot lie
Yep, they were great alright. I have a pretty good bagel place near me here in Queens. Almost as good I think.
Did you know the company was owned by a couple of Puerto Rican guys?
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From Wiki...
"The business was started in 1972 when Puerto Rican Helmer Toro and his brother-in-law Hector Hernandez (hence "H&H") bought Midtown Bagels at Broadway and 80th Street for $5,000 ($28,000 in current dollar terms) in cash and $50,000 ($280,000 in current dollar terms) in a loan. Toro eventually assumed full control of the business.[3]
In 1993 it moved its bakery to 46th Street at 12th Avenue in Hell's Kitchen although its primary storefront remained on the Upper West Side.
In addition to its retail locations, H&H also shipped bagels worldwide. H&H Bagels were Hechsher-certified Kosher and Pareve by Star-K.[4]
On November 18, 2009, Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau announced the indictment[5] and arrest of Helmer Toro for stealing withholding taxes and evading unemployment insurance taxes.[6]
The indictment alleged that between July 2003 and April 2009, Toro failed to pay $369,000 withheld from H&H employees.[7]
In May 2010 he pleaded guilty in a New York court to charges of grand larceny, and was ordered to pay restitution of more than $540,000 and to serve a sentence of 50 weekends, which he did on Rikers Island from June 2010 to July 2011.[8]
H&H filed for bankruptcy protection in February 2011 in an effort to maintain its manufacturing facility in Secaucus, New Jersey,[9] but ultimately that facility was sold at auction in October 2011. The West 46th and West 80th retail locations closed in January 2012.[10]
--Wikipedia: H&H Bagels
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BTW, I see you are now living in Tennessee. My father was from Knoxville. He met my mother in Central Park while on leave from the Navy about 67 years ago. Both are now gone.