Within the huge constellation of New York Town bagel retail outlets, Absolute Bagels at the Higher West Aspect has held a lofty however atypical place of honor.Well-known amongst bagel aficionados as a keeper of the flame lit by way of the unique bagel makers of the Decrease East Aspect — hand-rolled, kettle-boiled, oven-baked, at all times contemporary — the store used to be based within the early Nineties by way of Samak Thongkrieng, a Thai immigrant who discovered his craft on the venerable Ess-a-Bagel.Even because the nondescript storefront changed into an not going TikTok vacation spot, Absolute Bagels saved no social media presence of its personal, had no site, didn’t ship and approved simplest money.However as any person may just see from the traces up and down the block at the weekends, Absolute used to be amongst the preferred bagel puts in New York.Then, on Thursday morning, tragedy. A work of paper haphazardly caught to the door with packing tape spelled out the unhappy information in vivid purple letters: “WE ARE CLOSED.”And lo did a cry of anguish upward thrust from a stretch of Broadway between West 107th and 108th. It unfold temporarily to West Aspect Rag, the native information website that broke the bombshell information on Thursday morning, after which downtown, directly to Brooklyn, to New Jersey, and to bagel fans far and wide.Thanks in your persistence whilst we examine get admission to. In case you are in Reader mode please go out and log into your Occasions account, or subscribe for all of The Occasions.Thanks in your persistence whilst we examine get admission to.Already a subscriber? Log in.Need all of The Occasions? Subscribe.
