Brooklyn Bagel Shop To Fill UES Bagel-Shaped Hole On Lexington Avenue

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — A bridge-and-tunnel bagel shop is looking to move in after a Manhattan bagel shop closed its doors.

Bagel Point, a Greenpoint-based bagel shop, appears to be getting ready to serve fresh Brooklyn bagels to uptown connoisseurs on Lexington Avenue between east 61st and 62nd streets.

For years, the retail space next door to 787 Lexington Ave. has been home to some sort of carbohydrate vendor, including The Bread Factory and, more recently — and relevantly — a Pick-A-Bagel which closed in 2022.

Those successive years of bagels and breads on the block was broken when Asian-fusion spot Lilli And Loo, ironically known for the extensive gulten-free menu, relocated from their to-be-demolished Third Avenue home around the corner, next door to the still-standing Isle of Capri, to replace the shuttered Pick-A-Bagel in October.

The space at 787 Lexington Ave. was most recently a Boar's Head Cafe, a relatively short-lived venture, a spa and a Bolton's.

But Bagel Point won't be the first Brooklynite to call 787 Lexington Ave. home.

Irving Chais, proprietor and chief surgeon of the late New York Doll Hospital — which served as inspiration for the name of seminal proto-punk band The New York Dolls — was born in Brooklyn.