NYC bagel shop boss and dumpster-diving attorney battle over leftovers for the needy: ‘These are perfectly good’
NY Post
The bagels aren’t all that’s boiling in this Brooklyn neighborhood.
A local attorney is accusing the manager of a popular Crown Heights bagel joint of purposely sabotaging old bagels — including covering them in chemicals and food scraps — so that the dumpster-diving dogooder can’t donate the leftovers.
“These are perfectly good bagels from there,” Ted Rao, 47, a social security and disabilities lawyer, told The Post recently.
“They were baked in the morning — they shouldn’t be thrown out.”
Rao became somewhat of a neighborhood celebrity on Franklin Avenue six months ago when he started digging in the garbage of local chain Bagel Pub’s outpost there and re-bagging the doughy goods for those in need.
The attorney belongs to the Classon Community Fridge, a group that works with local businesses to redistribute food around the neighborhood so that it doesn’t go to waste.
