Eli's Essentials (Lexington at 87th Street)

New York has 2,408 coffee shops in the directory, and the coverage is even across both contact routes: 2,132 have a phone number and 1,988 have a website. Whether a room has seats, outlets, or any intention of letting you stay for two hours is the kind of thing that lives on the shop's own site, not here.

ZIP 10003 has 63 shops, the highest count in the category, while 10013, 10016 and 10036 each have 50. Those are walking distances, so a ZIP filter here works more like a neighborhood filter. Sponsored rows are paid placements and are labeled; nothing else in the ordering was bought. Anyone running a shop can claim its listing and fix the hours or the website on it.