In Bryant Park, next to the New York Public Library on 42nd Street, laptop users can sit at one of the public tables on a glorious afternoon and read their e-mail while sipping a latte, thanks to the Bryant Park Restoration Corporation.
In the small, mostly bare classrooms, which double as prayer rooms on Fridays, boys sit at one end of the tables and girls at the other.
Grab a newspaper and sit at one of the picnic tables on the front terrace, nursing a coffee and listening to the songbirds that provide constant background music in Athens at this time of year.
If her low-key indie approach is too underwhelming, just sit at one of the computers and log on to Fiona Apple's site.
We took two of the 10 seats at the counter so that our legs could dangle comfortably, rather than sit at one of several low-slung tables set on a tatami-matted dais.
On weekdays, visitors are invited to sit at one of the metal tables in the garden.
Everything is easy to eat on the go, but you'll want to sit at one of the half-dozen tables (the shop seats 18) to devour your dessert: the Alloush special.
I was to sit at one of the road's corners to watch when someone "ate hay".
Sit at one of the chrome-trimmed tables and watch the doughnuts travel on the shiny conveyor belt to fill your order.
To watch the city go by, sit at one of the outside tables at the Bar Impero or Pasticeria Moderna on Harnet Avenue.
We sit at one of several cafeteria-style tables, the spice aromas working ever more potently on our appetites.
