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Cafés · Greenwich Village and the West Side

Caffe Reggio

Caffe Reggio is a coffee house on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village, opened in 1927 and holding an espresso machine of 1902 in the front room.

The green shopfront and awning of Caffe Reggio on MacDougal Street, New York
The MacDougal Street frontage of Caffe Reggio, with its awning and pavement tables. Michael Bednarek · CC-BY-SA-4.0

Why it matters

Included as the surviving example of the MacDougal Street coffee-house strip that made Greenwich Village a place people went to sit rather than to live.

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Good for

  • Solo afternoonA small room built for sitting a long time over one cup.

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