By Currents News
A Coney Island bagel store that’s filling a hole in the market by employing formerly homeless veterans is officially open.
When you walk into Cyclone Bagels on Surf Avenue in Brooklyn, New York, Army veteran Anthony Jackson is at the register.
He and other vets make up 50% of the business’s workforce. When he returned home from Vietnam, Anthony struggled with substance abuse and some health issues. But then Cyclone Bagels helped him get his act together, and now his job means everything.
“It did save my life,” he tells Currents News.
Cyclone Bagels is open 7 days a week from 7 am to 3 pm.