Midtown has the most shops on the island, 38. Among them is Little Collins, named for a Melbourne alley and New York's first café on ModBars. The East Village comes next, with 16: Abraço roasts in-house, Lê Phin brews Vietnamese phin filter, and Moon Coffee Lab is home to the 2026 Origami Cup national champion.
The Longo family has run Porto Rico Importing Co. in Greenwich Village since 1964. Black Fox started in the Art Deco Cities Service Building on Pine Street, and up in Harlem, Superhet is a heavy metal coffee shop run by a 20-year barista.