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Cafés in Williamsburg & Greenpoint

Devoción's Colombian roastery café on Grand Street, the first Variety on Graham Avenue, and Polish bakeries and espresso bars along Manhattan Avenue.

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Williamsburg faces Manhattan across the East River, and the Williamsburg Bridge, opened in 1903, brought Lower East Side families over in such numbers that it became one of the city's most crowded neighborhoods.1 Its North Side was traditionally Polish and Italian, a large Satmar Hasidic community has lived south of Division Avenue since World War II, and artists filled its warehouses from the 1970s and in larger numbers in the 1990s.1

Greenpoint, the northernmost neighborhood in Brooklyn, ends at Newtown Creek across from Long Island City, and its Polish community, the second-largest concentration in the country after Chicago, centers on Manhattan Avenue.2 A 2005 rezoning of 175 waterfront blocks in both neighborhoods brought the high-rises that now line the river.2

Local tip: For the earliest weekday coffee near the Bedford Avenue L station, Pueblo Querido on North 6th Street opens at 06:30, half an hour before Devoción on Grand Street.

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156Cafés listed
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  • Opens earliest: Ando Patisserie, from 07:00 (Daily 07:00–19:00).
  • Closes latest: Williamsburg Bagel, until 00:00 (Mon–Thu 07:00–00:00 · Fri 07:00–15:00 · Sun 07:00–00:00).
  • Most listed streets: Manhattan Avenue (10), Grand St (8), Driggs Avenue (6).
  • Most common features: bakery café (12%), wi-fi (12%), specialty (11%).

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Coffee chains in Williamsburg & Greenpoint

Grand Street, Wythe and Kent avenues

Devoción's flagship café and roastery at 148 Grand Street is built like a Colombian coffee farm, with a pitched roof, a skylight and a planted courtyard behind a brick corridor.3 Its beans come from independent growers across Colombia, are dry-milled in Bogotá and shipped to New York by FedEx, and the company says it roasts them about 10 days after they leave origin.3 It opens at 07:00 on weekdays and 07:30 at weekends.3

Along the river, Two Hands is at 262 Kent Avenue, Bright Side at 184 Kent, and Maru Coffee at 320 Wythe Avenue opens daily 07:30–17:00. Depanneur at 242 Wythe Avenue stays open until 21:00, and Bakeri at 150 Wythe opens at 07:00 on weekdays. The Domino Sugar refinery, which stopped working in 2004, is being turned into housing and offices; its three main buildings became landmarks in 2007.1

Bedford Avenue and Graham Avenue

Bedford Avenue station is the L train's first stop in Brooklyn.1 Near it, Lattente at 219 Bedford Avenue and Hungry Ghost at No. 231 open at 07:00, and Bagelsmith at No. 189 bakes until 22:00 on Fridays and Saturdays. Pueblo Querido's café at 34 North 6th Street opens at 06:30 on weekdays.

Variety Coffee's original shop is at 368 Graham Avenue in East Williamsburg; by 2025 the roaster had five more cafés across Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens.4 It opens daily 07:00–21:00. Win Son Bakery at 164 Graham Avenue stays open until 22:00 from Thursday to Saturday, and Pecoraro Latteria at 636 Metropolitan Avenue until 22:00 from Tuesday to Sunday.

Italian Williamsburg: Fortunato Brothers

Immigrants from Nola, near Naples, brought the Festa dei Gigli to Our Lady of Mount Carmel church at Havemeyer and North 8th streets.1 Three Fortunato brothers who had come from Naples in 1970 opened Fortunato Brothers in 1976 at 289 Manhattan Avenue, beneath the apartment where they lived; the bakery makes cannoli, tiramisu, cheesecake and cream cakes.5

The café serves daily 08:00–23:00. Sweatshop at 232 Metropolitan Avenue and Rose Wolf Coffee at No. 867 open at 07:00, and Dun-Well Doughnuts at 222 Montrose Avenue, near the Bushwick border, opens daily at 08:00.

Greenpoint's Manhattan Avenue

The G train runs under Manhattan Avenue, with stations at Nassau Avenue and Greenpoint Avenue, and NYC Ferry stops at India Street.2 Cafe Grumpy began as a roaster at 193 Meserole Avenue.4 On Manhattan Avenue, CADET Coffee at No. 623 has Wi-Fi, For the Record at No. 1107 opens at 07:00 on weekdays, and Odd Fox at No. 984 serves until 19:00.

Pueblo Querido has a café at 195 Greenpoint Avenue that opens at 06:30 on weekdays, and Kettl, a tea shop, is at No. 70. Falu House at 34 Norman Avenue opens daily 08:00–17:00, and Glasshaus Cafe at 28 Herbert Street until 20:00.

Sources

  1. Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Wikipedia, accessed October 2026
  2. Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Wikipedia, accessed October 2026
  3. Coffee shop: Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Devoción, accessed October 2026
  4. The Sprudge guide to coffee in North Brooklyn (Liz Clayton, February 3, 2025), Sprudge, accessed October 2026
  5. Fortunato Brothers celebrates 40 years of Italian pastry in Williamsburg (October 11, 2016), DNAinfo New York, accessed October 2026
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Williamsburg & Greenpoint cafés: questions

Where does Devoción in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, get its coffee?

Devoción buys from independent growers across Colombia, dry-mills the beans in Bogotá and flies them to New York, and says it roasts them about 10 days after they leave origin. Its flagship café at 148 Grand Street in Williamsburg opens 07:00–18:00 on weekdays and from 07:30 at weekends.

When did Fortunato Brothers open in Williamsburg, Brooklyn?

Three Fortunato brothers who emigrated from Naples in 1970 opened Fortunato Brothers in 1976 at 289 Manhattan Avenue in Williamsburg, beneath the apartment where they lived. The café bakes cannoli, tiramisu, cheesecake and cream cakes and serves daily from 08:00 to 23:00.

Where is the original Variety Coffee in Williamsburg, Brooklyn?

The original Variety Coffee is at 368 Graham Avenue in East Williamsburg, and it opens daily 07:00–21:00. By 2025 Variety had five more cafés across Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens, including one at 146 Wyckoff Avenue in Bushwick.

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