Rooftop Coffee Roasters

Keegan Street started roasting coffee as a hobby at sixteen, working from the rooftop of his family's home; Rooftop Coffee Roasters, the family-run roastery-cafe he co-founded, now operates from a building at 492 2nd Avenue located, as the company describes it, 'under the very Rooftop where it all began.' The shop sells single-origin and blended whole-bean coffee sourced from Bolivia, Guatemala, Colombia, Ethiopia, and Rwanda, alongside a monthly subscription called the Coffee Club offered in Classic and Wild tiers. For instant coffee, Rooftop partners with a separate producer, Hasty Coffee, to freeze-dry its beans rather than building an in-house instant line - extending the brand into a format its cafe roasting doesn't otherwise cover. The company frames its supplier relationships around long-term commitments - 'clear communication, shared risk, and solid commitments harvest after harvest' - over maximizing volume from any single origin. Its stated approach favors accessibility over exclusivity, positioning 'good coffee for everyone' against what it calls the gimmicks and grandstanding of parts of the specialty scene, a stance that traces back to Street's teenage rooftop roasting rather than a professional coffee background.