Montreal-Style Bagels With Lox at Brookfield Place
Blending Montreal and New York styles, this bakery crafts bagels with a signature crunchy crust and soft, chewy center.
Why this stop works ✨
Black Seed brings its Montreal and New York hybrid bagel to Brookfield Place, tucked into the FiDi complex on Liberty Street. The founders, one from Montreal and one from New York, split the difference on style, and the crust turns out crunchy while the center stays soft and chewy.
The build goes past the usual cream cheese spreads into pastrami, tuna salad, and lox, which makes this a real lunch stop and not just a morning grab. The Montreal and New York crossover crust is the reason regulars pick it over the chain bagel down the block.
At 3.4 stars across 292 reviews, the bagels earn the praise while service speed and the cold brew draw more mixed notes. Time it outside the lunch rush, order a loaded one over a plain, and eat it by the water in Battery Park City while it is fresh.
