Update June 6, 9:37 am: We changed the story to better reflect Upright’s ownership.
After serving the neighborhood fresh coffee since 2011, Greenpoint’s Upright Coffee (860 Manhattan Ave.) is closing its doors. The last day of service will be Thursday, June 19.
Upright was founded by Michael Medovoy, who is also a co-owner of Sunshine Laundromat (860 Manhattan Ave.), a full-service laundromat, bar, and arcade located next door to Upright.
Current owner Daniel Neumann made the announcement of Upright’s upcoming closure on Instagram today, writing, “After 15 incredible years, I’ve made the very difficult decision to close Upright Coffee.”
“When we opened in Greenpoint, I never could have imagined the deep sense of community and connection that would grow around this little shop,” Neumann wrote. “Your support, kindness, and daily presence made Upright feel like home—for me and for so many others.”
Neumann said that the decision to close Upright “wasn’t easy,” adding that it’s time for him “to focus on other ventures.”
“While this chapter is ending, I carry countless cherished memories—from first-time customers who became lifelong friends to watching families grow up with us over the years. Thank you for being a part of this journey. I’m deeply grateful—and I’ll see you around the neighborhood.”
Upright Coffee is known for its offerings like the Rose Latte with rose-infused simple syrup and rose petals, and the Turmeric Maple Latte with turmeric, cinnamon, ginger, black pepper, nutmeg, coriander, and maple syrup.
The shop also serves a unique pastry to complement its coffee. Upright’s croffle is a croissant smashed in a waffle iron. The current flavor is filled with banana, Nutella, and almond butter.
Not my cup of tea, too expensive but friends told me they made a great cup of coffee. Good luck to the workers. Sunshine is an unusual throw back to the coin operated machines back in the day. A tad. cumbersome but I can’t complain since it is near my house.
PS: I don’t know what the hipsters are gonna do. Now we are down to 1,000 coffee shops.
What an unnecessary, annoying comment. I’ll miss this place, one of the first independent, coffee shops that opened in the neighborhood. Great coffee and house made almond milk!
There are no hipsters in Greenpoint. There haven’t been for many years. See all the golf bags and shirtless dudes. FINANCE BROs.
Paul
Only hipsters drink coffee? That is such a tired, lazy pejorative.
Thank you for your reply. Not really, it is a common used general term. I can think of many other much more pejorative terms that are used that I would not use. Yes everybody drinks coffee but not $8 lattes, frappes, grandes etc. like at Upright and other trendy places. One can get a decent cup of coffee for a buck at places like Peter Pan, Triple decker etc.
I read that coffee can actually wake the dead.
That explains folks walking down Manhattan ave looking like zombies…
Bar in the back isn’t it suppose to be a certain distance from a Church ‘ wonder if BBB knows what there doing back there in the back of the laundry !,,, I use to go there all the time back when Michael first opened this little coffee shop he was a young man ,,, I NEVER Go there now ,,,to dirty and no room to fold and the machines have no HOT water ,,,the place I go to now a few blocks away is much cleaner ,,,has more room to fold and they have steaming hot water !!!!! to bad they weren’t closing