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Murray's Bagels
Murray's Bagels has operated in Greenwich Village since 1996, building a reputation around a firmly traditionalist approach that includes a notable, long-standing refusal to toast its bagels, a policy the shop maintains on the grounds that a properly fresh bagel should never need toasting in the first place. That specific stance became something of a local point of debate and even minor controversy among customers accustomed to ordering their bagels toasted elsewhere, and Murray's has held to the policy for decades as a matter of genuine culinary principle rather than simple stubbornness. The shop's dense, chewy, traditionally boiled bagels and its extensive selection of smoked fish and spreads have made it one of Greenwich Village's most consistently recommended bagel destinations, its no-toasting policy ultimately becoming as much a point of pride as a point of contention. For a New York bagels list, Murray's is the essential "we don't toast, and we mean it" entry — a Greenwich Village institution whose famously firm no-toasting policy reflects a genuine, decades-held conviction about what a properly made bagel should be.
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H&H Bagels
H&H Bagels, founded in 1972 on the Upper West Side, became one of the most nationally famous names in New York bagels during the late 20th century, at one point reportedly the largest bagel producer in the city and a fixture referenced repeatedly in television and film depictions of New York. The original H&H closed in 2011 amid financial and legal troubles, but the brand was revived under new ownership beginning in 2014, reopening with the same traditional boiled-and-baked technique and continuing to trade on the name's decades of accumulated New York bagel cultural cachet. Its continued operation today, including retail and wholesale bagel production, reflects both the brand's genuine historical significance to New York bagel culture and the specific, ongoing effort by its current ownership to preserve and rebuild that legacy after its earlier closure. For a New York bagels list, H&H is the essential "the most famous name, revived" entry — a once-dominant 1972-founded bagel brand that closed and was brought back, carrying decades of New York bagel cultural history along with it.
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