Years ago, New Jersey bagel masters discovered the secret to creating an easy-to-eat bagel sandwich. Enter, the flagel — or "flat bagel." A flagel is made the same way a regular bagel is: the ...

The flat bagels are baked fresh daily at their bagel factory in Baldwin, New York and shipped to Filthy Flats in Brooklyn. The crispy and delicious flats are truly the star of the Filthy Flats show.

A sliced bagel. A pair of local bagel connoisseurs are getting ready to bring their delicious wares to Downtown Brooklyn in a new form — open-faced sandwiches served on a fresh-baked flat bagel.

The few hundred daily flagel consumers at H&H Midtown — where more than 10,000 non-flat bagels are sold every day — have developed a fierce loyalty to the new bread.

The Village Voice credited Tasty Bagels in Brooklyn’s Bensonhurst neighborhood as a likely source of the trend, where locals embraced the flat, crusty variation as early as the 1990s.From there, the ...