This architecturally stunning spot on the Columbia University campus has fast free wifi, courtesy of the college, real good sandwiches, quality baked goods and great coffee. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An NYU mainstay, where Foursquare was conceived, this Greenwich Village shop is Think's original branch. We appreciate the many seating areas, wifi, plugs, food & rotating pourover offerings. 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.
Although their espresso is rough around the edges, Taszo is a large, bright shop in an underserved neighborhood, with a separate back area for computer users.
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.
Despite execrable coffee, corporate food, garish 80s decor and a dentist office Pandora station, we still like to work here due to a surfeit of tables, plushy seating areas & wifi. Iced tea is decent. 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.
This high-walled Chelsea backyard has a comforting stillness about it and belongs to a cafe with some of the best NYC coffee. Read more.
It's not remotely a coffee destination but Milk & Roses scores extremely high in coziness and design and throws wifi, plugs, and a large backyard garden into the mix. Read more.
