Kossar's Bagels & Bialys | |
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Restaurant information | |
Established | 1936 |
Owner(s) | Evan Giniger and David Zablocki |
Food type | Bakery |
Street address | 367 Grand Street (and Essex Street), Lower East Side, Manhattan |
City | New York City |
State | New York |
Postal/ZIP Code | 10002 |
Country | United States |
Coordinates | 40°42′59″N73°59′20″W / 40.716446°N 73.988792°W |
Website | http://www.kossars.com |
Kossar's Bialys (Kossar's Bialystoker Kuchen Bakery) located at 367 Grand Street (and Essex Street), on the Lower East Side in Manhattan, New York City, is the oldest bialy bakery in the United States. [1] [2]
The bialy gets its name from the "Bialystoker Kuchen" of Białystok, in present-day Poland. Polish Jewish bakers who arrived in New York City in the late 19th century and early 20th century made an industry out of their recipe for the mainstay bread rolls baked in every household. [3]
Kossar's Bialys, originally known as Mirsky and Kossar's [4] when Isadore Mirsky and Morris Kossar founded it in 1936, is one of the few remnants of what was once its own industry in New York City with its own union association, the Bialy Bakers Association, Inc. [5]
Originally located on Clinton Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side, Kossar's Bialys moved to its current location at Grand and Essex Streets in the early 1960s after a union dispute and subsequent fire destroyed the building. [5] [6]
Juda Engelmayer, Debra Engelmayer, Daniel Cohen, and Malki Cohen purchased the bakery from Morris Kossar's son-in-law and daughter, Daniel and Gloria Kossar Scheinin in 1998. [7] [8]
In 2013, Evan Giniger and David Zablocki purchased the bakery from the Engelmayers and Cohens. After the sale, the new owners made a number of upgrades and changes to the store, including expanding the menu and making the decision to no longer operate as a kosher establishment.
Kossar's has a history of employing many female cashiers from the Philippines and employees from other countries as well. Many of these employees worked at the bakery for decades and still work at the bakery.
Kossar's Bialys was the starting point for former New York Times food critic Mimi Sheraton's research for her 2002 book, The Bialy Eaters: The Story of a Bread and a Lost World. [9]
Kossar's Bialys is on the Lower East Side and Lower Manhattan tour circuit. [7] [10]
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The Local had been striking since Feb. 1 against Kossar's and six other bakeries, all members of an owner's alliance called the Bialy Baker's Association Inc.
Juda Engelmayer and his wife, Debra, who jointly own Kossar's Bialys with their brother-in-law and sister, Daniel and Malki Cohen.[Photo caption]
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