The roasting runs from Red Hook, Brooklyn, and Gotham started out roasting at Pulley Collective. Chris Calkins, who opened Prodigy Coffee in 2012, launched the Flatiron shop in late January 2017 as the flagship of the wholesale business. Gotham roasted over 60,000 pounds of coffee in 2025, cups its roasts and checks roast development with a color meter.
Black-painted upper walls sit above white lower walls, with brass-armed globe lamps along the bar wall. The shop is a narrow single room with a short marble-topped counter facing the entrance and retail shelves of bagged coffee along the left wall.
