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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 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 [...]

New York Pastry Shop on Upper East Side May Close

According to a report in Crain’s New York Business, Payard Patisserie & Bistro, the famed New York City Upper East Side pastry shop, could close as soon as August.  The landlord is threatening to double the rent, Crain’s reports.
Situated on Lexington Avenue between 73rd and 74th streets, the pastry shop was opened by chef Francois [...]