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As a former NYC resident I have to say that many of the bagels there
suck too, as do other sorts of food you would think would be good in
NYC, like pizza and Chinese. One must always choose carefully in such
matters. Luckily my office deli sold bialys of which I consumed about a
million. Strangely, the best bagels I've ever eaten came from a hippie
bagel shop in Lewisburg, West Virginia of all places.