Leske’s is back and Bay Ridge couldn’t be happier.
More than 1,000 pastry lovers flocked to Fifth Avenue on Aug. 8 to celebrate the reopening of Leske’s Bakery, a beloved Scandinavian confectionary that shut its doors last year after a five-decade romance with an adoring public.
New owners Kenny Grande, John Giglio, Steven DeSimone, and Stephen Howe kicked off the grand reopening with a ceremonial cookie breaking before throwing open its doors to a constant line of sweet-toothed Brooklynites found outside the pastry shop for most of the afternoon.
The bakery between 76th and 77th streets will sell a wide variety of breads and pastries, as well as the black-and-white cookies, Danish kringles, limpa bread, and Scandinavian favorites that made the sweet shop a neighborhood mainstay.
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