Brighton Beach has a lot of gourmet coffee places, none of which are open before 8am and if you work in midtown, you most likely need to be on the B Train before then. The places that do open early–Rocco’s, Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts are very crowded with very long lines. Meanwhile there are several coffee places that refuse to open up before 8AM. When we asked the owner of one coffee places (which shall remain nameless for now) why they didn’t open earlier, we were told that they “tried to open earlier, but nobody came in.” Guess they don’t want the extra business.
—Lornagrl