Bird flu isn’t the only eggs-cuse

Eggs collected from hens at the Imani Community Garden, in Brooklyn. A bird flu outbreak affecting eggs hits differently in a city where prices and availability fluctuate from block to block. — ©2025 The New York Times Company

THE calls, texts and emails start coming in before six in the morning. Restaurants, bakeries and other businesses are desperate to find eggs.

Brian Moscogiuri, an egg broker and vice-president at wholesale company Eggs Unlimited, works the phone from his home office in Toms River, New Jersey, well into the evening, trying to match buyers with farms that have eggs to spare.