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Eden's avatar

I love The Chai Spot so much! Legit the best place to just hang with friends while time passes you by (but also I guess a good place to write). Also I'm a sucker for pistachio + matcha so thank you very much for the Cafe MSMN rec 🫡

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Madeline Marcella's avatar

chai spot stans 4 ever 🥹🥹

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Joe Hovde's avatar

Chai Spot the best

I would also add the cafe / book store at International Center for Photography in LES

Lovely, but dangerous because the books are so cool that you’ll spend $90 on one

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Suraag Srinivas's avatar

Albertine notably not laptop friendly anymore (source: just tried right now and was told they are now “offline only”) — may be worth an edit! Still adorable though

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Madeline Marcella's avatar

oh no!!! I guess that changed since I was there

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Suraag Srinivas's avatar

Must have gotten too popular!

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salma's avatar

immediately saved these all to my google maps, so excited to go to try these out !!! thank you for all the recs <3

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Kelly's avatar

Four five six is such a gem. My third place of choice ❤️

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Danny Li's avatar

Thank u for not gatekeeping! Will not rest until I check them all off the list.

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Madeline Marcella's avatar

Yay!!!

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Sarah Malone's avatar

Ahh so many good spots!!! loved reading this

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Renée Reese's avatar

Ahhhh it’s like this piece was made specifically for me 🫶🏽🫶🏽 I’m a native who just moved back and I’ve been wanting to find exactly these types of spots. THANK YOU!

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Madeline Marcella's avatar

ugh so happy our substack worlds 🌎 collided then :)

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Jessica Meltzer's avatar

this is an incredible list and couldn’t have come at a better time! also you are so not pick me (unless, perhaps, i am too LOL). thank you for this 🫶

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Alice Lemee's avatar

you are a saint for putting this together!

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Andrielle The Oracle's avatar

you’re doing divine work with these round ups. 🫶🏾✨

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Madeline Marcella's avatar

thank you 🥹🥹🥹

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Olivia Weiss's avatar

Was JUST thinking about how hard finding writing spaces is

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Madeline Marcella's avatar

it’s hard for no reason

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Olivia Weiss's avatar

The way I haven’t heard of half these places

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Stephanie Stahl's avatar

So many great spots. Thank you!

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Nora's avatar

Adding all of these Brooklyn spots to my list -- thank you!!

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Bri Boone's avatar

these are so effing good

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Sydney's avatar

how do we feel about adding Gem to this list?

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Madeline Marcella's avatar

Ok love gem, actually wrote about my love for sitting at their communal tables like 2 months ago, i just feel like it’s gotten so crazy here with the lines and stuff that it isn’t cozy anymore :(

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