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January 15 is National Bagel Day. Einstein Bros. Bagels, Manhattan Bagel and Biggby Coffee are among Here's where to get some spots with deals.

There was a time not too long ago when it was hard to find a good bagel around here, but bagel fans have more — and better — options now.

With 500 specialty shops across the city, the ring-shaped bread has evolved and been reinvented since Polish Jewish immigrants brought them over more than a century ago

NEW YORK: Bagels are as synonymous with New York as pizza and the Statue of Liberty. The ring-shaped bread has...

It’s not the water, according to experts, it’s the old-fashioned bagel-making process.

For a humble circle of bread, the bagel is divisive. Even that statement would probably set someone off on a rant (bagels are not just circular bread!). People could go to war over whether gimmicky styles like chocolate chip or rainbow bagels are delicious or disgraceful. But everyone agrees that boiling the bagel, which creates the distinctive crust, is the defining trait, what makes a bagel a bagel. Recipes will often explain that boiling makes the glutens create a crust. But apparently, the ...