City’s Oldest Jewish Bagel Shop Saved By Two Muslim Cabbies

[rug]

November 4, 2011 1:39 PM

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The oldest Jewish bagel shop in New York City has been rescued by two Muslim cab drivers.

Peerzada Shah, who attended culinary school in Manhattan after immigrating from Pakistan, and Zafaryab Ali recently took over the 91-year-old Coney Island Bialys and Bagels.

Ali worked as a baker at the Coney Island Avenue store for 11 years before leaving five years ago to earn more dough driving a cab.

When he heard the shop was in danger of closing, he immediately contacted his former roommate and decided to pull together to save the store.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/11/04/citys-oldest-jewish-bagel-shop-saved-by-two-muslim-cabbies/

I don't care about the bagels but their bialys must be saved.

[JI7]

1. what is Bialys ?

[rug]

5. Manna.

http://smittenkitchen.com/2009/03/bialys/

[Warpy]

7. An onion filled piece of pure heaven

and really hard to find outside NYC.

[azurnoir]

9. Is that what those are called I never knew

used to get them as a kid at a place in SW Michigan I always thought they were just onion rolls

[PoliticAverse]

2. A still warm from the oven bagel is heaven... n/t

[Liberal Veteran]

3. I thought bagels were grown stacked in plastic bags.

:shrug:

[PoliticAverse]

4. Those things in plastic bags aren't bagels - they're bread in the shape of a torus. n/t

[Angry Dragon]

6. had to goggle bialys

[edhopper]

8. The traditional

hand rolled, water boiled bagels are harder and harder to find in the city.
The commercial ones, like Lenders, use steam and are not true bagels.
Glad this one is saved.

[Warpy]

10. Lenders at least have the cement donut texture down

and they're the only acceptable thing out here in the Wild West. The other "bagels" out here are soft rolls with holes in the middle, really disappointing.

[edhopper]

11. And my brother asks me

how i can live in NY. It's the bagels and pizza, baby!