Hell Gate was a waterway before it was a bridge. The name belongs to the difficult passage between Astoria and Ward’s Island. This September 30, 1915 photograph shows the railway arch taking shape above it.
If you have any reusable shopping/tote bags floating around, Astoria Food Pantry could definitely use them! Here are some upcoming opportunities for bag drop offs, including this weekend
Semi Astoria mention in the A tier but I would imagine there are probably other recommendations for best bagels in this community. I will always fondly think of NYBCH as the only place I was able to get an iced coffee during March 2020 lockdown
Announcing Bagel-Bench: the definitive guide to NYC bagels.
Every Friday for the past 2 years, we’ve ordered bagels for the whole @ExtendHQ team. 1000s of bagels later, we’re publishing our findings:
S-tier: Apollo and Bagel & Schmear are SOTA, pushing the frontier on the taste × reliability Pareto curve. two of NYC’s leading applied bagel labs
A-tier: Brooklyn Bagel, NYC Bagel & Coffee House, and Murray’s are strong production-ready alternatives. The gap to the frontier is real, but we remain bullish.
B-tier: solid baselines, but we’d like to see more bagel R&D
C-tier: these shops have impressive distribution. We’d love to see that same investment in the core model
D-tier: significant work to do before we’d recommend consumption
like all benchmarks, this one is biased. unlike most benchmarks, we’re admitting it upfront.
what bagel should we eval next?