Kopifellas

new york's specialty coffee scene has always rewarded the people willing to look past the obvious spots. midtown manhattan is not where most coffee obsessives start their search, which is exactly what makes kopifellas on west 50th street worth your attention. the area runs on rushed lunches and back-to-back meetings, so a place that actually takes coffee seriously stands out more than it would in, say, williamsburg or the lower east side. kopifellas has built a local reputation that holds up, and that kind of standing in a neighborhood this transactional doesn't come easy. if you're working in midtown or passing through, it's a more honest cup than the block around it would lead you to expect.