Old timey Harlem shop, beautiful wood interior, offers Stumptown Coffee, beer & wine, and limited food. A fair number of plugs & wifi make it popular with students and laptop workers Read more.
A beautiful basement level spot w/ gorgeous design touches in Hamilton Heights, a coffee desert unrelieved by even a Starbucks. Counter Culture coffee, wifi, and soon-to-come outdoor space. Read more.
Although the wifi is a bit turgid, this is a relaxing place to work, and there are plugs, with one large communal table in a large, design-oriented space with good light. Pretty good Stumptown coffee. Read more.
A dark space with a Germanic tinge, the Chelsea/Meatpacking branch of Think offers lots of space, wifi and pourovers from different coffee roasters. Skip the 2nd Wave espresso. Read more.
The Intelligentsia espresso needs a little work, but from 11am-4pm, before it turns into a bar, there's free wifi and good snacks, pastries & savory food.
Although they eradicated their cozy front living room area, this Ottoman Empire-influenced East Village cafe cum wine bar is still popular enough that it's hard to get a seat. Wifi, some plugs, wine. Read more.
While not as large as its 2nd Ave cousin, this branch of The Bean shares nearly every other characteristic of that shop, good and bad: fast wifi, lots of plugs, awful coffee & generic music. Read more.
The only tea parlor we know of with wifi, Bosie has a few two tops w/ wing chairs in the back that are perfect for secluded work. There is also food, tea of course, and a huge array of sweets. Read more.
A rare workspace in SoHo, populated by fashionistas & tourists--lots of work meetings happen here. There are plugs & sometimes wonky wifi at this Intelligentsia shop. Coffee quality varies. Great food Read more.
The only good coffee & the only good workspace in the area, along with free wifi, quality espresso & a basic baked goods are provided to a mostly local Alphabet City crowd. Read more.
Although somewhat soulless, R & R Coffee provides fairly well-prepared Intelligentsia coffee to the underserved Financial District, along with wifi, a good amount of seating, and some plugs. Read more.
It can be difficult to get a seat near a plug upstairs, but the downstairs space offers many more. Wifi is strong, there's good food w/ a Nordic bent and a variety of coffee roasters on Clover. Read more.
