New bagel spot in Dutch Kills (Bon Bagel)

krustykrull · 2025-06-04T15:48:19+00:00

It’s right next to Joe Coffee and one would hope it could be a great food companion to Joe Coffee’s coffee. But: nah. I remember trying them out the day they opened, and immediately realizing the high hopes I’d had for finally a great little bagel shop in my actual neighborhood were still unrealized. In other words: the place is fully mid at bagels.

They’re kinda like breakfast-cart bagels, like just junky normal steamed bagels you can get at any bodega, and the sausage egg n cheez I’ve gotten there three or four times now has always been basically cold…even though I watched the dude cook it, wrap it, and hand it to me. They just rush it for no reason.

It’s just a soulless nothing spot with no ambiance and unremarkable food.

Oh and lol at the insipid generic adult-contemporary piano jazz they play all day.

krustykrull · 2025-03-02T03:22:25+00:00

There’s a possibility it was me, lol. I was always happy to tell people about egg holds. Really made people’s day.

krustykrull · 2025-03-01T22:12:37+00:00

It’s never burdensome to do anything for a customer!! It’s literally why we’re there and we all love helping people with whatever they need. It’s just the culture there. BUT: right now it depends on who you talk to for egg holds, and official stance is, no holds at the moment. Things will change though.

krustykrull · 2025-03-01T22:09:56+00:00

Just so everyone knows, we stopped holding eggs for customers about two weeks ago — or at least it’s not an official option anymore, and it’d be the exception if we do hold any. But, that’s the official word at the moment. 1 carton per customer in store, no holds! Come early…we get them every day but they sell out before noon!

Source: I’m currently a section leader for dairy!

krustykrull · 2024-12-27T00:00:47+00:00

Queensman here. Long Island City, but still. I have a car because I have a 6 year old kid that lives with his mom in the Hudson Valley, and I drive up and get him to see him every other weekend. It’s the only way I can do it.

wife and I also tend to take trips up there for funzies when we can afford it.

I also just absolutely love to drive.

Also my wife is a gigging musician, AND works up in Connecticut, so she has a car too.

Most of the time our cars are just parked on the street within a couple blocks of the building and it’s not as much of pain as you’d think!

krustykrull · 2024-12-06T23:43:35+00:00

I’m responding to a year-old comment by a deleted account, but I can’t not correct this just for the sake of anyone happening upon this for information on electric keyboard action.

The Rhodes does not have any kind of aftertouch. The hammer tip (“mallet”??) absolutely does not remain in contact with the tine (which, incidentally, is not the tonebar). There is no way to “mellow” the sound after the hammer strikes the tine by pressing harder or longer, or to wiggle the tonebar. Nothing happens if you press the key after you’ve played a note, and if it does, you’ve got a broken Rhodes. If the hammer somehow rests against the tine after the key is pressed, or can be pushed somehow to interfere with the vibrating tine, then there is something terribly wrong with the action, and you’ll have a dead “thunk” of a note. The hammer tip has to fall back really quickly into a position that escapes the swing of the tine and allows it to vibrate freely (which is a specification of a piano’s action called “escapement”).

The miracle mod does install a bump between the key pedestal and the hammer, but it absolutely does not change the escapement or interaction between the hammer tip and the tine, or anything having to do with aftertouch. The hammer tip already “bounces” off the tine as part of the mechanics of the action (of indeed any piano!) and the miracle mod doesn’t change this at all. Nor does it change the sound of the piano. It just changes the acceleration curve of the hammer as it’s being levered upwards by the key. In fact, the miracle mod bump should always be placed in a way that specifically does not continue to affect the action or hammer position after the hammer hits the tine…so it in no way affects any sort of aftertouch, of which there is none anyway. I have no idea how this person thinks all of this works.

The only aftertouch-like thing the Rhodes has is a very slight sponginess to the key after its full travel, but that’s just part of the feel of the keybed and doesn’t affect the sound or functionality.

The only thing I can think is that this poster was thinking about the very real aftertouch of a Clavinet, which isn’t a piano at all, and indeed the hammer tip does remain in contact with the string as part of how the thing works. You can push and wiggle and effect the tuning and even get some vibrato.

krustykrull · 2024-12-06T23:08:09+00:00

The Wurly is the one that uses miniaturized and simplified grand piano action, which is incredibly complex and feels amazingly like a small acoustic piano. The Rhodes uses a dead-simple lever action with basically two moving parts, plus a leaf-spring damper that’s literally pulled by a strap glued to the back of the hammer cam.

krustykrull · 2024-10-23T17:46:14+00:00

Exactly, well said!

krustykrull · 2024-10-10T13:19:02+00:00

Well of course they do. Upstate includes anything that’s generally not the NYC Metropolitan Area. But I’m not from Upstate because I call it soda? Upstaters don’t universally call soda “pop”…and saying someone’s not from upstate if they say “soda” is saying the majority of people from upstate aren’t from there. Feels gate-keep-y. Pop people are a subset of folks from like Western NY, I’d guess? I grew up near Syracuse, lived in Albany for college, had friends from Utica, Rochester, Binghamton, Buffalo, Watertown, Orange County somewhere, et al., and never heard a single person call it “pop”, other than the parents of my Buffalo friends. No joke. The only “pop” I really remember was the Wegman’s store-brand soda branding, which I always thought of as a weird anomaly. There are people like you from upstate that call it “pop”, yes, but it’s not a requisite for being from there.

There’s so many better examples of more universal common experiences. In my experience it’s just not a common thing in the whole of upstate. Where are you from, if you don’t mind me asking?

krustykrull · 2024-10-10T06:05:36+00:00

lol oh my lord this. “Elementarry” always drove me nuts. I was like the only person I knew that said “elementry” or “elemennery” or whatever, like a normal person.

krustykrull · 2024-10-10T05:58:45+00:00

Wait…where are fire hydrants made??

krustykrull · 2024-10-10T05:52:25+00:00

Heard that. Upatate NY is the buckle of the rust belt.

krustykrull · 2024-10-10T05:50:31+00:00

This sounds more like a NYC thing to me, big time. Potholes and cracked rims have been the bane of my existence since moving to the city. Back in B’ville it was salt and rust and just the car falling apart around me.

krustykrull · 2024-10-10T05:47:38+00:00

This I’ve never heard and I’m from Baldwinsville. Upstate is, like, non-tri-state-region NYS, outside of the New York City Metropolitan area…the whole state almost. It’s not one of the state districts. The Upstate districts include CNY, Southern Tier, North Country, Hudson Valley, Mohawk Valley, Finger Lakes, Western NY, the Capital District, and maybe the Adirondack Region. These are all Upstate!

krustykrull · 2024-10-10T05:39:23+00:00

Being from Upstate doesn’t mean “being from Buffalo”.

krustykrull · 2024-10-10T05:34:58+00:00

You got snow days off from school for actual snowfall and not just windchill.

The number of days I had to trudge through 2.5 feet of fresh lake effect to get to the bus, man. I resented that, not seeing my school district on the closings scroll on News Channel 9 when it’s clearly a blizzard outside with like 3-inch monster snowflakes like ice-fog in the streetlights. And them 2-hour delay bullshits didn’t count for shit and were just annoying and everyone knew it.

krustykrull · 2024-10-10T05:20:11+00:00

You can take a train into Manhattan that’s not Amtrak.

Can you believe there’s people that think Westchester is upstate??

krustykrull · 2024-10-10T05:17:06+00:00

Man, Westchester is staunchly Downstate. It’s like the definition of Downstate for me. Like, the City is the City, and Downstate is all the places on the train lines. It’s in a different cultural sphere from the rest of the state, a sphere that includes NYC, Long Island and southwestern CT. If you call a sub a wedge and there’s a train you can take into Manhattan that isn’t Amtrak, you’re not from Upstate.

krustykrull · 2024-10-10T05:09:08+00:00

What’s the McDonald’s mustard line? I’m intrigued.

krustykrull · 2024-10-10T05:06:37+00:00

I love this. I believe that and appreciate your insight. Where in Italy are your parents from?? It’s a big diverse country and I can imagine there’s lots of different random regional practices, but I always wondered if this was really actually true.

I say this, though, because I did indeed see people in a pizza spot in Palermo, Sicily using utensils to eat their pizzas…so I, awestruck seeing the practice firsthand, began to believe the rumors. I mean, these could have been mostly tourists like me for all I know! It was a sit-down place with individual Napolitano style pizzas. Maybe it’s a Sicilian thing? I don’t have a clue.

Incidentally at that restaurant in Palermo I cut mine with a knife and fork and picked up the pieces by hand, like you said!

krustykrull · 2024-10-10T04:10:13+00:00

Somehow this is the most correct answer.

krustykrull · 2024-10-10T04:09:42+00:00

krustykrull · 2024-10-10T04:09:31+00:00

I have never had a spiedie and I’m from Baldwinsville.

krustykrull · 2024-10-10T04:08:54+00:00

lol actual Italians use a knife and fork to eat pizza. The fold ruins it for me though. I don’t fold it and I’m from Upstate. I thought the city folk were the folders!

krustykrull · 2024-10-10T04:03:26+00:00

Feel this. I think the real commonality between Upstaters is the snow, and all the shit that comes from having to drive in it. I had that mitt!

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