Coffee in South Bronx / Melrose

East 140th Street gets coffee from seven on weekdays here. Pastries sit beside a short breakfast and lunch menu. It is the kind of place where people work at the tables for an hour, and it has a second counter operation nearby. Mott Haven did not have one of these until it did.

Mon to Fri, 7am to 4pm. Sat and Sun, 8am to 4pm

A coffee shop on East 161st Street that has been open since 1955, two blocks from the Bronx Music Hall door. It is a griddle, a row of stools and a short menu of eggs and sandwiches, with coffee poured into a mug rather than a cup with a lid. It opens at half past six in the morning every day of the week. Nothing about the place has been styled.

Mon to Sat, 6:30am to 5:30pm. Sun, 6:30am to 3:30pm