Ask HN: what is a good spot to work in New York?

There's tons of places in NYC, but here's a few places I've been known to frequent

- Cafe Amrita, near 110th St and Central Park West. Generally has a pleasant buzz. I've noticed other techie types there, but not tons. They kick out the laptop crowd out on weekends, and at night they become more of a bar.

- Tea Spot, near MacDougal and West 3rd in the Village. A smallish place that has always been pretty quiet when I've worked there. NYU students are most of their customers, I reckon.

- Cosi near 23rd st and 6th Ave, in Chelsea. This is a chain, but this particular Cosi is well-lit, has good internet service, is large, and never seems to be very busy.

- As others have noted, New York Public Libraries are often great places to work. I sometimes sneak off from my office to use the Hudson Park Library, which is near Leroy and 7th ave in the Village. Its a tiny little branch library, but its quiet and the internet service is fast. There's a lot of little branches like that, look on the web site for locations.

Grounded on jane st is terrific. Great coffee, good number of plug points, extremely pleasant interiors.

As GMFlash said, Science, Industry and Business Library (SIBL) on 34th and Madison (http://www.nypl.org/locations/sibl). It's very consistent with comfortable chairs for working.

The Cosi on 8th between Greene and Mercer by NYU is the same way. Even when I can't get a seat at any of the surrounding coffee shops this place is mostly empty with plenty of outlets and free wifi.

Great suggestions throughout this thread. If I had to bucket them, three categories come to mind:

1. A quiet place where you can bang out work (e.g. libraries)

2. Somewhere with more of a scene where you can work and also mix with others in the startup / tech ecosystem (e.g. GA, Ace)

3. Somewhere like #2 but with a little more NYC flavor and less tech (e.g. Kaffe 1668)