The Door To Segafredo’s

This is the bottom of the wall at the cafe on Hudson street where I go for coffee. Its a small place, but very popular. It usually has a line thats about 15 feet long, which is just a few feet longer than the store. As a result, the door is usually held open by the last person in line.

In the summer, the place is cooled by a loud and ineffective air conditioner, which is perched in a window box over the front door. The air conditioner drips its condensation out of a little tube, which is supposed to run off onto the sidewalk. When the people hold the door open though, the tube gets jammed up against the wall, and it trickles its water onto the wood until it is soaked, then it drips off the bottom of the waterlogged wall into a little puddle on the ground.

The cafe is on Hudson and Perry. I think it’s called Panini Gusto, but I always refer to it as Segafredo Zanetti thanks to a large sign that advertises a brand of Italian coffee that they sell there.