local place to work/linger?

Now that Sage is long gone, I am in need of a local hang-out/coffee shop type of place where I can meet someone and work/linger over a coffee or two. I'd rather not head to the slope. Any ideas?

Bristens is more of a restaurant type place, but I don't think they'd mind if you ordered some coffee and hung out for a while, especially if its not during prome Saturday/Sunday brunch time.

check out the Outpost, on Fulton btwn Classon and Grand. awesome, good coffee and food.

i think bristens has a $5 minimum to hang out...but they do have wifi.

purity diner on dean and underhill.

tony fisher is opening a coffee shop at 809 franklin ave. and will the best coffee in brooklyn. gimmee coffee.

luk-han wrote: tony fisher is opening a coffee shop at 809 franklin ave. and will the best coffee in brooklyn. gimmee coffee.

okay. who is tony fisher?
and do you work with/for him?
It's cool to post if you do, but please check out the rules of this board. We need you to be upfront about affliliation.
http://www.brooklynian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3319

tony is the owner of fishers. ever since i moved to the city he has been nothing but nice to me. after a year of shopping in there i got to know the fisher family and their plans for the future of franklin. thats all.

Gimmee!™ coffee is really good. I buy it by the bag on Lorrimer Street once in a while. It is more expensive than Porto Rico coffee (Bleecker Street), but even I can taste the difference.

tony is one of the first guys to ever make me feel welcome in the neighborhood as well when i first moved here a few years ago - very friendly and accomidating.

that's what's going in next to 95south? or is 809 on the east side of franklin? that is very exciting news.

luk-han wrote: tony is the owner of fishers. ever since i moved to the city he has been nothing but nice to me. after a year of shopping in there i got to know the fisher family and their plans for the future of franklin. thats all.

which is why you're pm'ing me to ask about my cat litter preferences?*

listen, i think it's fine for fishers' employees to post here, but be honest about it.


* tidy cat clumping litter with the green cap

Fisher's is one of the worst supermarkets around! I hope the coffee shop isn't a reflection of the crummy, poorly run supermarket. However, the people are nice.

I'm with Shake here. Have always found the people at Fishers to be pleasant, but this supermarket couldn't even boast of having a fresh piece of lettuce or a vegetable as recently as say five years ago. Shilling it is I say. They should transform first and advertise second.

Subject: hang out

outpost is a favorite of mine, especially their patio.....Homage is great to hang with friends, but no real coffee, beer and wine, abigails, well, and there is no real hanging at chavellas..

oh, back to the OP's question, i recommend bristen's. it's nice and has wifi. throw some money their way -- i don't want to lose that place!

Assemblyman Karim Camara has been talking like forever about bringing a coffee shop/art gallery to Nostrand. It apparently would be some hook-up with Medgar Evers College. You might want to give him a shout-out at 718-756-1776 to find out the latest. God knows Nostrand could use a good coffee shop!

Oh yes! A coffee shop within walking distance! That would be awesome!

I love Nostrand anyway, and do most of my food shopping there. It's where I conduct my continuing affair with Caribbean food. BUT there is no good place to hang out with a cup o' joe. Hell, I'd hang out in such a spot even if they don't have wifi. (Remember the days when people would bring a book? And then start conversations with each other about what they were reading? I date myself, I know.)

"Oh yes! A coffee shop within walking distance! That would be awesome!+

At one point he was talking about the failed Natural Foods store between Lincoln Place and EPW. Great location. Is anything in there yet?