The best places to find coffee beans in NYC

Opened in Gramercy Park in 1996, this coffee business stays busy with a collection of New York cafes, a wholesale business, a SCAA certified training and education lab, a green coffee buying program, a roastery and a tasting room. It also runs the gamut on selling various coffee beans: Choose from single origins, blends, espresso, organic and decaf. Consider a coffee subscription that’s weekly, bi-weekly or monthly with either single-origin or blend coffees. Or get a distinct flavor like Rainforest Foundation Project (which Irving Farm partners with). Other buzzing choices (from whole bean to finest grind) include the delicately floral La Candelilla, Costa Rica, the dark and slightly spicy finished Gotham Dark Roast and the dried cherry and almond La Peña Miel, Nicaragua. Various locations (irvingfarm.com)

This family-owned chain with a wholesale business and stores in NYC can be found as far uptown as Columbia University and down as West Village and even out in Red Hook. Find three- or six-month gifts subscriptions featuring whole bean packages of either a house blend, roaster’s choice or an espresso medley. If you’re making a one-time purchase, consider doing Joe Coffee’s subscribe-and-save option, which provides a five percent price break. Apply it toward the Waverly, an espresso named for its first NYC store, and on farmed-sourced beans like Guatemala Lago and Nicaragua Los Altos. Or let your roaster surprise you by choosing a single origin for you (trust the expertise). Various locations (joenewyork.com)

With a focus on fair trade, Rainforest Alliance and organic certified and sustainable coffees, this café chain and wholesaler roasts beans in small batches for a top-notch cup profile. (Plus its Brooklyn packaging facility is Star K Kosher certified.) The coffee beans come from sources including Brazil, Costa Rica, Kenya and Mexico and in sizes like five-pound bags or 12-ounce tins. Get special blends like Colombia and Guatemala origin Bespoke or the Nicaragua and Brazil-based BQE Espresso. Or try out sampler tin sets, along with seasonal sampler and coffee-of-the-month programs.

With its HQ in Long Island City, this non-profit coffee chain gives three to 10 percent of its revenue to local charitable partners connected to the communities in which the cafes are based in. The coffees tend to focus on either dark or medium roasts, with one-time-use bags including Burundi Karuzi AA, Mexico Otilio Montaco Natural Decaf and Sumatra Mandheling Gr 1. Subscription plans are pretty simple: Go with a pre-paid plan or a subscription involving COFFEED’s Roaster’s Pick Plan or your own preferences. Both plans also let you choose a charity to send three percent of your purchase proceeds to, so you can feel super good with every sip of what you’ve bought. Various locations (coffeednyc.com)

With its flagship cafe in Ithaca, this New York state chain with one locale in Nolita and two in Williamsburg is known for its small-batch roasted beans and espresso offerings. Along with having a wholesale business, Gimme! Coffee has a number of subscription blends, ranging from its signature Leftist Espresso Blend to Rally, a Fair Trade organic blend, to Darkness, a bittersweet composite. Coffee categories include single-origin and blends, decaf and fair trade, with destinations ranging from Africa to the Americas. Maybe pick up the nutty, chocolaty Brazil Cerrado or the fruity Congo Munngano?