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Gorgeous Places to Work, Caffeinate, and Get Wifi

January 27, 2020 By LizLawton

If I’m Paying $6 for a Coffee & $15 for Avocado Toast, the Cafe Better Be a Goddamn Wes Anderson Movie Set

The Hoxton in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

One of the cruelest fates known to man is when you find an adorable café, score a seat with enough personal space where you aren’t lusciously grazing knees with the person next you and they can’t view the files on your desktop (which you haven’t realized until now are alarming without explanation), find a free outlet less than an arm lengths away and not between your aforementioned neighbor’s legs…then when you go to join the café’s wifi network BAM – no free wifi. *breathes after that run-on sentence*

 Since I’m a sucker for stunning work spaces, please take a page from my “Places in NYC where I’ve spent too much money on coffee and most likely switched to alcohol at 4pm“:

Devocion in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Felix Roasting Co in Nomad, Manhattan
Stonefruit Espresso in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
The Roost in the East Village, Manhattan
The Library at the Nomad Hotel in Nomad, Manhattan
The Metrograph Commissary in the Lower East Side, Manhattan
The Ace Hotel Lobby in Nomad, Manhattan
A/d/o in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Freehand Hotel in Gramercy, Manhattan
Freehold in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Also, note that museum and libraries, the og work spaces, are quite beautiful as well…

New York Public Library Rose Reading Room in Bryant Park, Manhattan
Cooper Hewitt Design Museum on the Upper East Side, Manhattan

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