My Whitefish Salad Runneth Over: H&H Bagels Reopens!

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Well, that was quick: the Upper West Side location of H&H Bagels reopened this afternoon, after being seized by the government for non-payment of taxes early this morning. The State Department of Taxation and Finance this afternoon told the CityRoom that the retail location of H&H and its Hell's Kitchen bakery owed more than $100,000 in back taxes. Clerks at the UWS bagel store have returned to ~~laying out lox slices and buttering those poppyseed~~ selling plain, unadorned bagels like there's no tomorrow, and have been specifically instructed not to talk about the temporary seizure. A woman at H&H's flagship (identifying herself as “Blanca, just Blanca”) said the seizure was “a misunderstanding that has been cleared up." The tax department differs; CityRoom explains, "so many tax warrants, or liens, had piled up by Friday that the department was still struggling to provide a full accounting to reporters." H&H hopes to have everything cleared up by today, so that no more locks will be hoisted upon on the House of Lox.

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By Hugh Merwin in Food, News on May 29, 2009 3:40 PM

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ribaldry

I wish I could understand these articles. They're getting more and more bizarrely written. I guess I'm just not hip enough to "get" it.

whitecastlerock

Oh please their bagels are dogshit. Take a trip about a mile north and go to Absolute Bagels.

Mr Mel

The owners of H&H are not ethnically capable of handling a bagel store problem.

selizara

Come on, guys. Bad reporting - H&H is well known for selling bagels but not selling them with spreads on them. They sell tubs of spreads in the side coolers, but will look at your like you're an idiot if you try and order a bagel with cream cheese on it.

Hugh Merwin

Corrections appended.

EastRiver

"No-bagel-no-bagel-no-bagel-no-bagel-no-bagel"

-Cosmo Kramer

JenChungsBaby

Does the UWS store even sell lox? I've been in there lots of times and don't recall ever seeing any. I thought that's what Zabars was for across the street.

Doctor Memory

They have a small amount of pre-packaged lox in the refrigerator case. It's not terribly good; I can't imagine many people buy it unless they're in a huge hurry or don't know any better.