This new coffee shop near Yankee Stadium is operated by Bronx youth in conjunction with South Bronx United. It serves as a workforce development program that helps young people develop skills. Coffee comes from Devoción and cookies, croissants, and muffins are baked at Mottley Kitchen in the South Bronx.

Plowshares started as a wholesale roasting company in upstate New York before opening its first coffee shop near Columbia University in 2014. The small coffee roaster sells drip coffee, espresso, cold brew, and other standard drinks. There is a second location in West Harlem.

Variety first started roasting coffee in 2014: It now has multiple locations around the city, including this popular shop on the Upper East Side. The coffee brand is known for its nutty, chocolatey roasts, and you can now find its coffee at other cafes throughout the city, as well as at Three Decker Diner in Greenpoint, run by Variety owner Gavin Compton.

Elm Roastery roasts beans in house and touts ethically-sourced beans. Visit here for standouts like its Kyoto cold brew, lattes, matcha, ube lattes, and more. Food ranges from croissants to chile chicken salad toasts.

Visit this spot that’s a kissaten during the day and an izakaya at night. The cafe serves pour-overs and siphon coffee from single source beans and blends. Lunch options include Japanese-style spaghetti, variations on hayashi rice, and Japanese omelets.

Named after the instrument used to brew coffee in Vietnam, Lê Phin opened last year. Find Vietnamese iced coffee, Vietnamese-style brewed hot coffee, as well as lattes that use culturally relevant ingredients like pandan and black sesame. The small, sunny storefront has a few seats inside.

There’s nothing in coffee quite like Abraço, an East Village shop with so much personality it’s hard to take it in all at once. There’s the coffee, with wild-haired co-owner Jamie McCormick often working the bar. There are the pastries, such as co-owner Liz Quijada’s justifiably famous orange-scented olive oil cake. And there’s the scene, the chatty locals who, in the words of Frank Zappa, make this “the top freako watering hole and social HQ.” Also, if you’re lucky, they’ll be playing your favorite vinyl from start to finish.

Started in the East Village since 2015, Coffee Project has grown into a destination (for coffee nerds) with locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. The shop sells standard cafe drinks, plus seasonal pour-overs, deconstructed lattes, Nitro cold-brew flights, and other drinks. The brand roasts its beans in Long Island City, Queens.

Three Legged Cat features an impressive array of roasters (Sey, Obscure, Dak) and used in espresso drinks. Go here for its sunny space and an array of pop-ups from the likes of Greenpoint’s La Maison Tachon for pastries and bar takeovers by various roasters.

Suited in the Financial District works with some of the biggest names in New York roasting right now, including Sey and Little Wolf, along with a handful of international roasters whose beans are available from the shop. There is a full menu of standard cafe drinks but stick to a cup of espresso or drip to appreciate the thoughtful sourcing that’s happening here.

A bright and airy sky-lit warehouse decorated with potted plants, Sey Coffee feels more West Coast than Bushwick. But it’s more than just a pretty space: Sey is regarded as one of the better microroasters in NYC. Founders Tobin Polk and Lance Schnorenberg favor a light, clean Nordic-style flavor profile highly regarded by the coffee cognoscenti.

For the freshest of fresh-roasted coffee beans, it’s hard to beat % Arabica. The Kyoto-based import opened its first U.S. location in Brooklyn last year with a souped-up espresso machine, baked goods from Balthazar, and a “green bean corner” where customers can buy beans to be roasted on the spot in minutes.

Villager is an ambitious coffee shop masquerading as a laid-back neighborhood cafe. During the pandemic, the business opened on a quiet side street in Prospect Heights: It now has a following outside of the neighborhood. The draw is a thoughtful selection of coffee beans sourced from roasters like Sey, based in Bushwick, and Dayglow, a coffee company from Los Angeles.