My good friends are visiting NYC for the first time -- arrived Sunday. Staying at 61st & Central Park West. Want to have a dozen black-and-white delivered to their hotel. I've called 6 places on the Upper West Side -- won't take credit card, don't have black and whites, it's too far. New Yorkers, help! Gotta bakery for me?

The delivery part may be hard! (although, for a price...)

Try Zabars (they don't make their own, but carry them)

Fairway on 74th and broadway makes their own mini black and whites which they usually have everyday.

Zaro's (a chain , but not on the UWS ) makes regular large sized ones, but also try Hot and Crusty (has a store on Broadway and 71st as well as one on 87th)

Call their hotel and speak to the concierge. They will know every place within a 15 block radius that will deliver.

Hot 'n' Crusty, several locations, sells delicious black & white cookies. Not sure about delivery. Good luck!

Please share with the rest of us -- what are black and white cookies? Oreos??

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What are these tasy items???? All you good New Yorkers, please enlighten us! (hungry now)

Black and Whites are a cake-like cookie...about size of a saucer (as in cup and saucer), with a bit more depth than a cookie. They are topped with frosting, half black, and half white!

I've never thought they were a big deal, but some people live for them!

Black and white ... not getting along.

A black & white cookie is a real treat! It's biiiig, much bigger than commercial store-bought cookies, maybe 6 inches in diameter (although there are mini versions too, as one Fodorite above mentions). The texture of the cookie is soft, cake-like, buttery. The top of the cookie is frosted half "white" and half "black", vanilla and chocolate. My favorite way of eating them is nibble at the sides until you have a perfectly shaped center of half black and ha;f white in each bite! ;-) My favorite place to get them is Pick-A-Bagel, they're always fresh there. Next time you out of towners come to NYC, be sure to try a black & white cookie.

The key to eating a black and white cookie, Elfie, is you want to get some black and some white in each bite. Nothing mixes better than vanilla and chocolate. And yet, still, somehow racial harmony eludes us. If people would only look to the cookie. All our problems would be solved.

O.K...the frosting is vanilla and chocolate - but what is the cookie made of - white cake dough, yellow cake dough or chocolate cake dough?

Jerry: Are you still waiting for your Bobka?

You can't beat a babka.

Help! Help! He stole my braided rye!

That was a MARBLED rye, old bag!

I wanted a chocolate babka. Who eats cinnamon babka anyway?

Dang, it's 4:00 pm and a dozen calls; no luck. Zabar's wants $25 delivery charge and $6.00 a cookie; no delivery today. I called just about every other bakery within 10 blocks of the Mayflower. The one I could afford that would deliver wouldn't take a credit card. Thanks anyway, good folks, for responding so quickly. Hey, what could I offer you in return for your making a delivery on your way home from work??! Just a thought...

Sara: Where are you posting from?

Suburb of Washington, DC

Sara: At this point, why not just point your friends in the right direction for the BEST Black & White - I'm still in the dark as to why you'd want something delivered to their room they can easily pick up themselves.

Because I wanted to treat them to a special surprise, something New York-y, they have two kids, and it's better than some old $50 fruit basket.