Y'know Porto Rico the coffee store on Bleeker (and there's another in Soho on Thompson)? Well their distribution center is in Williamsburg on South 1st St. at Driggs. Since moving to Brooklyn I still go to Bleeker Street for my beans - with occasional emergency runs to Oslo - but I've always wondered if it's possible to buy at the place down on S1st.
The other day some people were hanging out inside the fence so I asked them and they said to come between 9 and 5 and I could buy coffee. Today I went down there. The door was locked but I rang the buzzer and eventually someone same to the door. He opened the door for me and walked away. I caught up with him at what looks like a room for filling mail orders. So I wouldn't call it retail in the traditional sense but yes, you can buy small quantities of coffee (2 pounds in this case).
Meanwhile, I have no idea what those overhead scoopy tubes are for but the whole place feels like a coffee scented Santa's workshop.
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