When employees arrived for work at the famed Beigel’s store in Brooklyn on Thursday morning, they discovered the body of a bakery worker who had been unintentionally locked within a walk-in freezer.
Around 8 a.m., staff discovered the 33-year-old worker dead inside the renowned bakery on Avenue D near E. 56th St. in East Flatbush, according to police. The victim, whose identity was not immediately made public, allegedly became stuck after entering the freezer to clean it out approximately five hours earlier, according to the police.
The well-known neighborhood shop was established in 1934 in the proprietors’ native Krakow, Poland, and quickly rose to fame for its distinctive black-and-white cookies and whoopie pies. In 1949, Beigel’s moved to the Lower East Side before finally relocating to Brooklyn as the company with its proudly-professed “old-world sensibility” grew and prospered.
Police tape was used to block access to the bakery, which was hidden behind a gate and off a parking lot. The company owners made no immediate remarks on the incident.
