Dorothy Garone, Gotham Bagel owner, with son William Garone; and Donna McCullough of the Gary Daves Law Firm The Gotham Bagel Café is the brainchild and the business start- up by Dorothy Garone and Jay Finkelstein, a husbandwife team transplanted from New York City. The bagel and coffee enterrpise is in the former Rising High space two doors north of Sylvan's in the 1500 block of Main Street.

For Columbia's oldtimers, it's the Kress building.

The ribbon- cutting ceremony was Friday morning, January 23.

Gotham Bagel is open daily for breakfast and lunch. It closes at three in the afternoon, but on Fridays, it stays open until eight.

Saturday is an all- day schedule, and the business is closed on Sunday.

At noon on the second Friday of every month, beginning this February, and again at six that night, there will be an illustrated lecture by John Temple Ligon. Mostly about urban design, the lecture series occasionally covers painting, sculpture, and architecture.

Jay Finkelstein, Gotham Bagel owner, and Paul Dunn of the Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce Jeff Prioreschi of Capitol Places, Ike McLeese of the Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce, and Henry Roe of Colliers Keenan Carolina Quillen with the Columbia Museum of Art, and Ryan Hiler and Susie Norgaard with Colliers Keenan Joel Stevenson of USC Technology Business Incubator Meredith Good and Tammy Willmore of WIS- TV Happy bagel customer and Nathan Good Pete Cannon, downtown buildings owner Matt Kennell and Amy Stone of City Center Partnership