We do it the old-fashioned way: hand-rolled, kettle boiled. My friend owned this shop since 1981 and I became a partner in 2015.Ī few things: crispiness of the outside and that softness on the inside. I was managing a restaurant at time in Astoria but did Fresh Direct, making nine different frozen bagel flavors, which sold millions of dollars in frozen bagels a year. Eventually Fresh Direct asked his partner to make frozen bagels. My friend whose father owned a shop worked here. This was back when you had one kind of bagel with butter, before everything bagels were a thing! I ended up here in Queens because my wife grew up in this neighborhood. My best friend’s father owned a bagel store in Howard Beach where I started working at 14 years old. Always give respect and never expect it back.
At times, I put on tefillin and I’ve been in a minyan, but what’s important is.
Sometimes growing up, you’d know you’re Jewish and you’re around Italians and don’t want it to be known you’re Jewish, but as I got older, I felt cheated because we didn’t we do more things. I have friends that are rabbis and it’s important for me to show respect for religion. I didn’t go to Hebrew school - my bar mitzvah portion was in English - but I respect religion. I grew up Jewish but wasn’t brought up religious, but every summer, we’d visit a bungalow colony in the Catskills in Monticello.
I grew up in Brooklyn, in Canarsie, across from the Glenwood projects in an era where the whole block played together.
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