Coffee Shops in NYC - Visualized

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Every wondered what the distribution of coffee shops in NYC looks like?
Well, StatsBee does the heavy lifting so that you don't have to, and the results should surprise absolutely no-one that lives in NYC.  From the column
In order to figure out where StatsBee readers could warm up, we used the latestRestaurant Inspection Results from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. When our exhaustive search for caffeine was complete, StatsBee had compiled a list of 1,700 cafés, coffee shops, and tea shops in the five boroughs of New York City. 
Manhattan neighborhoods have the highest density of cafés per ZIP code. The East Village ZIP code of 10003 has the highest number of shops with 49, closely followed by Midtown/Hell’s Kitchen (10019) with 47. Midtown East (10017) and SoHo (10012) each have 41, and Tribeca/Chinatown (10013) has 40. The non-Manhattan neighborhoods with the highest concentration of caffeine are Williamsburg (11211) with 31 shops, Glendale (11385) with 32 shops, and Park Slope (11215) with 32 shops.
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