LIC gets a bagel boost thanks to Bricktown Bagels

I live in East Coast 6, and I can say that there has been no change to the space across the street for the market…. it is frustrating.

Let me know what you hear from them!

About Bricktown Bagels..
Its a nice place, but the staff seems to be “getting the hang of things”.
The place is open and big, but they could use more seating.
I think the coffee is served way too hot and too thin, i like just black coffee, no syrup, no foam, just coffee. I hope they charge a little more and add more beans to the brew.
The bagels are good, i’m happy about that.
But the new front window i hate. I like the fast changing area and morning sun. The new grade school artwork that covers those big plate glass windows are a disappointment.
I hope they change the windows.

I love their bagels! It’s best to get there early on the weekend and get them while they are still warm. A happy addition to my weekend routine!

the food is not nasty there. sounds like you had a bad experience. well that happens. but their bagels are good. especially when fresh. sandwiches etc are also good. not really a fan of their cheap looking pastries and sub-par coffee, but in LIC we’re lucky just to have good bagels so let’s just go with that.

Hey Samantha & George,
Sounds personal, too bad you two are so inept that you have to ruin this website with this nonsense. Do us all a favor and visit your local deli.

Love the bagels and especially love the egg salad. Also, just got a new to go menu that says they’ll be open until 9pm on weekdays!!

–Homophobic Bagel Boys
I love a toasted sesame with a schmeer same as the next guy. Bricktown Bagels on Vernon Blvd in Long Island City just isn’t the right place to buy one. Waiting on line a few weeks ago I overheard a loud-mouthed short-order cook complaining “why do the faggots in this neighborhood order breakfast at noon!?” Now wait, I didn’t just hear that, and with not the least bit of concern or hesitation in his voice. It must have been something else. I struck it up to my iPod ears and my partner and I left slightly bewildered.

Fast-forward two weeks and now on a mission for lunch. After standing around for awhile without anyone even attempting to take my order, I could hear the words scream from the grill area (not even partitioned from the counter area), “we’ll Joe is a queer anyways, who cares,” clear as day. With my jaw dropped and blood boiling, the half-pint 40-something burger flipper continued on his rant with the words “faggot” and “queer” falling out of his mouth like lead balloons.

I called him out on his B.S. and loudly invited him to come over the counter and try to throw this faggot out of the store. Not a shred of remorse in his eyes and his pal just kept asking me to keep it down. Grill-guy added that he was just “talking about someone he knows.” I couldn’t care less, but I did care that “sorry” was not in his vocabulary.

Follow-up calls to owner Mike Del Ray were not returned and best I can see from the street, Grill-guy is still there despite the call-out in front of the entire staff. As an aside, the reason I did this was because if you don’t call people out on their narrow-minded homophobia, racism, sexism or bigotry in any form, they lack any incentive to stop. They still get the laugh from their little pals and they continue on creating a climate of intolerance for you, or your neighbors, friends, family or perhaps your closeted teen struggling with their sexual identity in a society that condemns them.

Next time you want a bagel go elsewhere, or even better, tell them why you are going elsewhere.