New York City’s Best Bagels

Despite the city’s overwhelming options, all bagel lovers can find their favorite bagel bakery in New York.

Ess-A-Bagel, 359 First Avenue

With hand-rolled, big, low-salt bagels like cinnamon-raisin, honey grain and sesame, this spot in Gramercy Park are many New Yorkers all time favorite. Opt for the appetizing tofu spread, or choose between several yummy cream cheeses.

Lenny’s Bagels, 2601 Broadway

Lenny’s at Broadway’s Upper West Side offers bagels with terrific crusts from sunrise to late. If you buy twelve you will get six free. I recommend a tasty oat-bran bagel with tofu-scallion cream cheese, or the sundried-tomato cream cheese. No risk for disappointments.

Murray’s Bagels, 500 Avenue of the Americas

In this Greenwich Village bakery, locals call the hand-rolled bagels ”boats” because of their impressive size. Pumpernickel and poppy are the best sorts and the topping combinations won’t let you down. Murray’s doesn’t toast their bagels, but the people who know that the real deal should be eaten fresh don’t care.

Absolute Bagels, 2788 Broadway

Step off the subway at Cathedral Parkway Station at 110th Street and enter this spacious place. Absolute Bagels has light and large bagels with a kind for almost every taste. Popular among Columbia students.