Abraço
Owner-operated espresso bar · 1 location · East Village, NYC
Abraço is an East Village institution: two co-founders, one room, house-roasted coffee. Not a dollar of outside money since it opened in 2007, and no labor or court case reported in all that time.
The Big Picture
Abraço is what nearly two decades of saying no looks like: co-founders Liz Quijada and Jamie McCormick still run their single East Village café, roast their own coffee, and have never taken outside money. No labor dispute has been reported since it opened in 2007, and there is no formal environmental or sourcing record to check at this scale. The only expansion has been longer hours.
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