This sleek-looking spot sticks out, sitting as it is on street art-festooned Troutman Street. AP Cafe serves decently prepared 40 Weight Coffee along with a casual food menu and offers free wif.
This atmospheric S Williamsburg shop has decent Stumptown espresso & rotating French press offerings, furniture built by the owner from reclaimed barn wood and found objects. Many plugs, good wifi. Read more.
You might want to smuggle in coffee from Hungry Ghost down the street so that you can work in this beautiful, skylit, giant space, which at night is a beer garden/German restaurant.
So popular for laptops that it can be hard to get a seat despite a large bar, 2 front tables, 3 stool height 4 tops and a garden (weather allowing), Búdin offers coffee from many roasters. Free wifi.
The homegrown back room was built w/ laptop workers in mind - lots of tables, couches, chairs & plugs, although sometimes the wifi conks out. The Stumptown coffee is inconsistent. Read more.
The old Cafe Royal has become Cafe Edna. Wifi is much improved, there are lots of plugs, and a full food menu. Coffee is courtesy of Toby's Estate. Great, quiet place to work.
This, the original branch of Cafe Grumpy, is a favorite spot of ours for good coffee and getting work done. Lots of tables, a smattering of plugs, and sometimes overwhelmed wifi. Top notch baked goods Read more.
This aesthetically pleasing pure white shop belies the dark-roasted Caffe Vita coffee on offer. Free wifi & plugs are provided along with three large tables for working. Homemade sandwiches. Read more.
Although laptop seating is limited, this is a good spot in the area to work later in the evening since they're open until 9pm. Pretty good Stumptown, free wifi, plugs along the wall, and food.
Inside Bushwick's Shops at Loom is a large, quiet coffee house with lots of tables, wifi, plugs & a grand piano, but subpar coffee. There's a large back deck for warmer days.
This kid-friendly Ditmas Park Stumptown shop makes the most of its triangular space, with lots of exposed brick, yellow accents, a wall of windows, free wifi, plugs, and lots of community events. Read more.
Occupying a former carburetor repair shop, Little Skips is an oasis in an aesthetically unappealing section of Bushwick. It's evolved into an attractive art-filled community center w/ wifi. OK coffee. Read more.
Lots of seating options, a backyard garden, free wifi, many plugs and gorgeous decor make this an excellent working spot. Skip the coffee, food's not bad. Read more.
Serving decently prepared 49th Parallel coffee from Vancouver, this El Beit spinoff is dark & usually crowded w/ laptop users. Plugs are covered by duct tape but wifi is solid. Lots of baked goods. Read more.
Different in every way from the Kew Garden branch, Odradeks has pretty good food, a large, nicely-designed space, wifi, and plugs. They serve well-prepared Heart using all the best coffee equipment.
There are many coffee shops on Greenpoint's Manhattan Ave, but Propeller is one of the best places to work, with fast wifi, a few plugs, and a clean, spacious design, serving Parlor Coffee.
Owner-operated shop w/ rotating cast of coffee roasters and baked goods from their restaurant across the street. Coffee is consistently good and wifi is steady. Wall tables all have plugs. Read more.
This Prospect Heights shop is always jammed w/ laptop users due to their wifi, plugs, plentiful seating, beautiful garden and baked goods. Their Stumptown Coffee is almost always poorly prepared. Read more.
Now that the area has exploded, so has this shop's popularity. Sweetleaf roasts their own coffee these days, so you can enjoy that along with their free wifi, if you can get a seat.
With 15 or so two-tops, a communal table, a smattering of plugs, and strong wifi, this is a good spot to work. High ceilings, open space, exposed brick, and an ongoing roasting concern.
