Vigilante Coffee (Hyattsville)

Coffee roaster in Hyattsville, Maryland. In a New Yorker profile it is where members of the local Catholic community meet before dawn.

At a glance

Source	Author	Role	In one line
Rod Dreher’s Monastic Vision – The New Yorker	Joshua Rothman	setting	Pre-dawn meeting spot in an industrial space with indie rock and painted skateboards.

Rod Dreher’s Monastic Vision – The New Yorker — Joshua Rothman (2017)

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Hyattsville’s relative affordability is especially appealing to large Catholic families, and the café was in an industrial space that might once have belonged to a body shop.

• Role: setting
• In the article: Pre-dawn meeting spot in an industrial space with indie rock and painted skateboards. Chris Currie and manager Diane Contreras describe the café’s unofficial Catholic mission of effecting goodness through coffee.
• Why it matters: A small scene that shows the Hyattsville community’s ordinary, practical faith.