Brooklyn Sour opens first storefront in High Falls, aims to build community

Brooklyn Sour’s first storefront turns a pandemic home-baking project into a fixed stop on Route 213 in High Falls. The new shop gives local customers something the pop-up model could not: dependable hours, a clear address, and a place to buy bread, pastries, coffee, and specialty drinks without waiting for the next market table.

Owner Tal Glezerman started Brooklyn Sour in her Brooklyn apartment during the COVID pandemic, baking for neighbors and friends before the business grew into a small operation. After Glezerman and her wife moved to Marbletown in May 2024, she kept baking under a home processing permit while selling wholesale, at pop-ups, and directly to customers. The High Falls storefront at 1219 Route 213, also listed as 1219 NY-213, High Falls, NY 12440, was planned to open May 1 and is now open.

The bakery’s current service pattern is built around capacity and repeat visits. Fridays are set aside for coffee, tea, and specialty drinks, while Saturday and Sunday bring the full bakery menu. For sourdough regulars, that means the shop is not trying to be everything every day. It is using a smaller weekly schedule to support a broader food operation, with enough breathing room for bread production while still giving the neighborhood a reason to stop in more than once.

Brooklyn Sour’s public identity also reaches beyond the loaf. Good Food Jobs described the bakery as women-owned and queer-owned, with an emphasis on sustainability, local ingredients, intentional production, and waste-conscious methods. The business also says it offers fair, livable wages without tips and provides healthcare benefits, a detail that reinforces the bakery’s effort to build a workplace as carefully as it builds its dough.

That approach is part of what made the opening feel bigger than a simple retail expansion. Chronogram said Brooklyn Sour had already built a cult following through pop-ups, co-op sales, and late-night apartment baking sessions, while Prism News reported that the High Falls space was a long-vacant Main Street storefront and that the bakery was using a pay-as-you-can model. Together, those details show why the first storefront matters: it gives High Falls a neighborhood bread stop, and it gives Brooklyn Sour a permanent place to gather people around it.