Joshua Ozersky

"While You're There: This is your only chance to ever have a hot black and white cookie. So maybe wait for one."

Robert Sietsema

"This century-old bakery, in perpetual danger of closing down, is evidence of Bay Ridge's Scandinavian past, and the Danish pastries, nut-studded and white-frosted, are some of the best and most old-fashioned available anywhere. But the place is also famous for its black-and-white cookies and, come St. Patty's Day, its soda bread."

Laura Siciliano-Rosen

"In Brooklyn, a good spot is the old-school Leske’s Bakery in Bay Ridge."

Jen Carlson

"If you must go with a fluffy and frosted top, then Leske's in Bay Ridge does this style the best."

Tara Cox

"These cookies were thick flying saucers of black and whiteness. Eating this cookie felt like eating a personal cake. A fluffy, dry, airy, cakey base was topped with smooth icing. The icing… ohhh, the icing. Sweet, but not cloyingly so, and creamy… so creamy. The vanilla was neutral and pleasing, while the chocolate was a fudgy masterpiece."

Bianca Mendez

"Maybe it was their buttery pastries, their melt-in-your-mouth black and white cookies or their Irish soda bread. Whatever it was, Leske’s Bakery has been a favorite for many Bay Ridge Brooklynites since 1961."

Benjamin Schmerler

"Leske’s best-seller is decidedly—perhaps appropriately—native to New York: a superb black-and-white cookie. You can spot Leske’s cookies in a lineup by its signature center bulge, which gives it a three-dimensional quality, almost like a top that you’d spin."

Dave Cook

"Though I admit to a weakness for the fondant-draped style, Leske's celebrated black-and-white cookie was an unexpectedly gooey pleasure on a fat, spongy base."