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H & H Bagels is Closing: Upper West Side Loses Neighborhood Icon

Upper West Side icon H & H bagels closes.

H & H Bagel Owner Indicted for Tax Fraud; Broadway Shop Remains Open

Helmer Toro, the 59-year-old owner of H &H Bagel, pleaded not guilty yesterday to a variety of tax charges, a number of news outlets have reported. As of this afternoon, the Upper West Side bagel shop on Broadway was still open. “It’s not true,” said a woman who answered the phone when asked whether the [...]

NY Food Icons Are Center Stage at SF Serious Eats American Food Festival

Ed Levine of Serious Eats is giving the City by the Bay a bite out of the Big Apple, the San Francisco Chronicle reports today. Levine is bringing in iconic American foods, like Philadelphia cheese steak, from around the country. He’s striving for authenticity, so local is out, and the real deal is in.
For his [...]

H & H Bagels Closed Briefly on Friday

Oy! There was much bigger hole than any that was ever punched in a bagel when the much-loved H & H Bagels at Broadway and 80th Street was briefly shuttered Friday for non-payment of taxes, according to a story in The New York Times.
Taxes, schmaxes! We need our neighborhood bagel shop!
For my face-off between East [...]

East Side, West Side: Which Has Better Bagels?

Which New York neighborhood can lay claim to the best bagels?
There are East Siders who say Ess-a-Bagel on Third Ave and 52nd St (also on 21st Street at Third) produces the best bagels in the city. West Siders insist that Absolute Bagels on Broadway at 107th St has no equal. Some swear by H & [...]

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H & H Bagels is Closing: Upper West Side Loses Neighborhood Icon

H & H Bagel Owner Indicted for Tax Fraud; Broadway Shop Remains Open

NY Food Icons Are Center Stage at SF Serious Eats American Food Festival

H & H Bagels Closed Briefly on Friday

East Side, West Side: Which Has Better Bagels?

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