Gearing Up for the New York City Coffee Festival

Out of all the events in NYC, this is one of my annual favorites.

Leigh Victoria Phan, MS
4 min readOct 5, 2023
Photos by Author + the New York Coffee Festival Logo

New York City is the kind of place where if one set of plans falls through, there’s always something else you can find to do. It’s a wonderful thing — but since there is so much to do on any given weekend, it can get hard sometimes to find the events and communities that really light you up. I’ve been working in the city for four years and living in it for two now; I’ve had my honeymoon period of saying yes to everything. Now I’m a bit more discerning with how I spend my weekends.

But there are just a few annual events that I pause everything in life to go to do.

And one of them, hands down, without a doubt, is the New York City Coffee Festival. I don’t make recommendations lightly, but this is an event that I plan life events and vacations around because I just can’t bear to miss a coffee celebration of this scale. It’s happening this weekend, October 6th through 8th and I really hope I will see you there!

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Leigh Victoria Phan, MS

Brooklyn-based writer and poet. Designer in NYC. Drinks books and loves coffee. Has an MS from NYU in Integrated Design & Media. Working on an MFA in Fiction.