An Ode to NYC Coffee Culture

In the late summer of 2014, I finally visited New York for the first time. I took a 17-hour bus ride with a friend and we listened to curated playlists, imagining what driving into the city would be like. I had my list of coffee shops to go to, as I always do when traveling somewhere new. On it were a mix of both Manhattan and Brooklyn coffee shops, but Manhattan definitely had the more developed coffee scene of the two.