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Lenox Coffee
Six words or less: Local Roaster, Community Spot, Laptop Friendly Location: 129th Street & Between Fifth Ave & Lenox Ave Hours: Every Weekday 7am-7pm, Saturday & Sunday 8am-7pm Open Since: December 2012 Roaster: Owner roaster operating out of Co-op in Red Hook, Pulley Collective Amenities: Wifi, Bathroom, A few outlets, Seating for 20 Must try: Cold Brew on Tap or the…
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Stumptown Coffee Roasting in Red Hook
As the yellow water taxi backed away from the ports of Red Hook, and Statue of Liberty’s robes draped still against forty mile per hour winds, I reached Stumptown’s Coffee Roasting East Coast Headquarters on a punishingly cold Friday in March. Inside an unassuming industrial building block, stacked with bags of green coffee beans and two…
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Joe Coffee Roasting HQ: Red Hook
Down a windy pier in Red Hook Brooklyn, past street art murals defaced with quick bubble letter tags, with the Statue of Liberty beaming out in the horizon, the smell of roasting coffee whips past warehouses and potholed dead-end streets. Here a dead end street ends in water lapping jagged shores and as it…
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Dear Mama: A Community Coffee Shop in Harlem
Six words or less: Local roast, large space, big heart Location: 109th Street & Between First and Second Avenue Hours: Every Day 7am-9pm (Except Tuesday, 7am-10pm) Open Since: July 2016 Roaster: Dear Mama in partnership Nobletree Coffee (Red Hook, BK) Amenities: Wifi, Bathrooms, A few outlets, Seating for 30 Must try: Dip-able Cookies & Cappuccino…
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NYC Coffee Supports ACLU: Your List
Coffee and political action have always been intertwined. At one point King Charles II tried to shut down coffee shops believing that the citizens complaining about his governing were spurred on by coffee consumption. On December 29, 1675, King Charles II issued A Proclamation for the Suppression of Coffee Houses. In it he banned coffeehouses as…
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Coffee Shops
Come back here for profiles of New York Coffee shops with notes on who roasts their coffee, the shop’s obsessions and the shop’s visit-worthiness.
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Roasters
In the coming months, we will be interviewing New York City roasters and feature them here!
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Coffee 101: The Three Waves
To speak of coffee is to speak of waves. Even when you are drinking the average small cup of drip coffee from a local coffee shop, you are a part of third wave coffee. The third wave is a response against Starbucks. Starbucks provided us with a space to congregate, a community space. Right when…
NYC Under Grounds
Your Guide to New York City Coffee
NYC Under Grounds 