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06/03/2026
"Y'all must have forgot...forgot...forgot..." How did we leave this off the calendar!?!?!
Oh yea, babes. Game Night is most definitely going down on June 20! Hosted by , this special edition evening is all about Black trivia! Get your groups together and come out!
06/02/2026
June is Caribbean Heritage Month, and we're celebrating Saltwater Roots through literary, artistic, and cultural gatherings at NEFER.
From thought-provoking conversations to creative experiences, this lineup highlights the stories, perspectives, and cultural traditions that continue to shape the diaspora.
Our facilitators this month rep Haiti, Grenada, Jamaica, PR and more bringing their style to their work and to NEFER.
Browse the calendar, save your dates, and join us throughout the month.
06/01/2026
NEFER is officially part of the NYC Juneteenth Black Bookstore Crawl happening June 12–19, 2026 — and we want you to pull up, pick up something that sparks wonder and curiosity, collect your commemorative passport, and catch a vibe with us all week long.
Come discover books that move you, conversations that nourish you, and a space rooted in imagination, joy, memory, and possibility.
Bring your people. Stay awhile.
📍 Visit NEFER during the crawl
🛍️ Shop Black booksellers across NYC
📚 Pick up your commemorative passport
✨ June 12–19, 2026
05/30/2026
Real conversations. Real attraction. Real “can I see you again?” energy.
NEFER x KARATNYC presents We Met at NEFER — Speed Dating Game Night!
A sexy little kickback for grown people looking for a connection.
RSVP in Bio
Saturday, May 30
6PM–10PM
📍 NEFER Bookcafé
694 E 241st Street, Bronx
05/28/2026
Bing-bop-boom-boom-boom-bop-bam.
Andre Easton curated a reading list, exclusively for NEFER, rooted in Black radical thought, political education, resistance, and collective liberation.
Featuring:
• A Fighting Dream: The Political Writings of Claudia Jones
• Groundings with My Brothers by Walter Rodney
• Socialist Reconstruction
• Rasta and Resistance by Horace Campbell
These are books that help us think more deeply about the world Eleanor Bumpurs lived in, the movements her death galvanized, and the political traditions that continue to shape struggles for justice today.
Shop the Bookshop link in our bio to pick up a gem from Andre's reading list or come in. Better yet...
Join us tonight for an intimate evening with LaShawn Harris in conversation with Andre Easton at NEFER, Eleanor Bumpurs: Remembering a Life that Shook New York.
📍 NEFER Bookcafe
📅 Thursday, May 28
⏰ 7:00 - 9:00
RSVP link in bio
05/28/2026
We're telling you right now, if we hear somebody ask, "What's your favorite color?", just might hit you with wop-wop Sandman
Love. Leisure. Liberation.
What is earned? What is given?
Let's have the conversations that are worthy of who we are, for real. Over games, over coffee, over matcha, over tea, over a sippy sip of .
We Met at NEFER: A Speed Dating Game Night
Saturday, May 30
Time: 6-10P
You gotta RSVP, cutie. Link in bio.
05/27/2026
Tomorrow night we gather for one of the most important conversations we've hosted thus far.
We just released more tickets, so if you've been feeling the tug to learn more, wrestle with more, understand more, and connect more, answer the call by coming out to Eleanor Bumpurs: Remembering a Life that Shook New York, featuring author LaShawn Harris in conversation with Andre Easton.
If you’ve been meaning to RSVP, now is the time.
Thursday, May 28, 2026
Time: 7:00 - 9:00p
RSVP in bio
05/26/2026
NEFER is proud to be part of NYC’s Work, Learn & Grow Program with .ny and NYC Department of Youth and Community Development — and honestly, they sent us a star. ✨
Meet Tien: senior, rising culinary arts + entrepreneurship major, manga and fantasy book fan, and now one of the creative minds behind some of the most delicious custom drinks we’ve had behind the coffee bar. Every drink he makes is unexpected, imaginative, and way too good. Ask him what he’s reading, tell him what flavors you like, and let him put you on to something magical.
Beyond the coffee bar, Tien is also learning the real mechanics of running a business — helping build the financial structure of our menu, understanding pricing and operations, and even assisting with book selection for the shop.
Oh and please believe . Ask him!
We also want to give flowers to Dwayne Brown and the entire .ny team. The care they put into connecting young people with small businesses and community spaces like NEFER matters deeply. This is how we grow the Bronx: by creating opportunities for young people who will one day create opportunities for others.
And because they really understand our spirit, Dwayne curated a limited selection of FREE books centered on imagination, justice, belonging, acceptance, and creativity — all the things we try to nurture here every day.
But here’s the best part 👀
Come into NEFER and play NEFER trivia with Tien for a chance to win one of Dwayne’s books!
We put on for our city!
05/25/2026
This evening is for anyone thinking seriously about history and justice in New York City. Join LaShawn Harris in conversation with Andre Easton for a discussion that connects the story of Eleanor Bumpurs to the present moment with care and clarity.
These are the books and conversations that are worthy of who we are.
Eleanor Bumpurs: Remembering a Life that Shook New York
Thursday, May 28, 2026
Time: 7-9p
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05/23/2026
Join us for THE FIRE THIS TIME, a radical historical reading series led by Terrence Freeman examining the entangled histories of racial capitalism, colonialism, and resistance across the Atlantic world.
Why Terrance chose Open Veins of Latin America as our next read:
"This work offers a comprehensive, materialist analysis of the historical development of LATAM, detailing how racial capitalism and its bedfellows–colonialism, imperialism, and fascism–subjected the continent to six centuries of exploitation that fueled the enrichment of Euro-colonial societies and imperialist nations at the expense of the indigenous and Black people of various Latin American societies."
The Fire This Time Historical Book Club with Terrence Freeman
🗓 May 23, 2026
🕛 12P | Noon
📍 NEFER Bookcafe
05/22/2026
We Met at NEFER: Speed Dating Game Night soundtrack had to feel like a late-night ride through the city with somebody you're falling for fast. So we called on Tristan Dillon McCallum (.estate.rex) to personally curate the playlist for the evening.
Expect soul. Expect R&B. Expect records that make the eye contact hit a little different.
This isn’t just speed dating.
It’s grown energy. Good music. Connection.🖤
Sponsored by
NEFER x KARATNYC presents
We Met at NEFER: Speed Dating Game Night
Saturday, May 30
6PM–10PM
📍 NEFER Bookcafé
694 E 241st Street, Bronx
05/21/2026
LaShawn Harris weaves together personal memory and deep historical research to honor the life of Eleanor Bumpurs and examine the movement that emerged in the wake of her death. Joined by Andre Easton, this conversation centers on the ongoing urgency of collective memory and justice.
NEFER Bookcafe
Thursday, May 28
7-9p
Tickets available now in our bio
05/21/2026
Book sale type.
From May 21–26, all books at NEFER are up to 20% off. Come stock up on the stories, theory, poetry, cookbooks, and page-turners you’ve been meaning to bring home.
Build your summer stack. Leave with something that stays with you.
Crazy. Sexy. Well-read.
05/20/2026
“How do you want to feel in a relationship?”
Safe? Seen? Inspired? Desired? Soft? Challenged in all the right ways? Tell us in the comments.
Join us for We Met at NEFER: Speed Dating Game Night — an evening of real conversation, playful connection, and on-purpose energy curated by and sponsored by .
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Saturday, May 30
6PM–10PM
📍 NEFER Bookcafé
694 E 241st Street, Bronx
Truthfully, this is the same question we asked ourselves when creating NEFER.
We wanted to build a space that invites curiosity, connection, and pause, so we made murals that make you stop and think. Where the coffee and teas carry stories from around the world. Where the books ask us to reconsider each other — and ourselves.
In a world shaped by grind culture and disconnection, we wanted NEFER to feel like an exhale.
A place to return to yourself, and maybe even find each other there too.
05/19/2026
Love feels good over here! Join the lovely for her beloved chunky Mandu bag workshop! There are just a few tickets left!
May 23, 2026
Time: 3-4:30
694 E. 241st Street, Bronx
Reserve your ticket in our bio.
05/19/2026
Eleanor Bumpurs: Remembering a Life That Shook New York
Before hashtags and viral footage, Eleanor Bumpurs’s death changed New York City forever. Tell Her Story traces the life and legacy of a Black grandmother whose killing sparked outrage and organizing across the city. Join LaShawn Harris and Andre Easton for a conversation rooted in history, memory, and urgency.
Thursday, May 28, 2026
Time: 7-9P
NEFER Bookcafe
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05/18/2026
Some stories do not loosen their grip on a city. They linger in the walls, in memory, in the language people use when they try to explain why they still gather, protest, mourn, and demand more.
In 1984, Eleanor Bumpurs — a 66-year-old Black grandmother living in public housing in the Bronx — was killed by NYPD officers during an attempted eviction. The violence of her death reverberated far beyond her apartment, becoming a defining moment in New York City’s reckoning with racist policing.
Join us at NEFER Bookcafe for an evening with historian LaShawn Harris as she discusses Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City — a deeply researched and profoundly intimate work that restores Eleanor Bumpurs to the center of her own story.
In conversation with Andre Easton, Harris explores memory, archival history, Black womanhood, community witness, and the movements born in the aftermath of loss.
Thursday, May 28, 2026
Time: 7p- 9p
NEFER Bookcafe - 694 E. 241st Street, Bronx
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This is NEFER.
05/18/2026
Some stories do not loosen their grip on a city. They linger in the walls, in memory, in the language people use when they try to explain why they still gather, protest, mourn, and demand more.
In 1984, Eleanor Bumpurs — a 66-year-old Black grandmother living in public housing in the Bronx — was killed by NYPD officers during an attempted eviction. The violence of her death reverberated far beyond her apartment, becoming a defining moment in New York City’s reckoning with racist policing.
Join us at NEFER Bookcafe for an evening with historian LaShawn Harris as she discusses Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City — a deeply researched and profoundly intimate work that restores Eleanor Bumpurs to the center of her own story.
In conversation with Andre Easton, Harris explores memory, archival history, Black womanhood, community witness, and the movements born in the aftermath of loss.
Thursday, May 28, 2026
Time: 7p- 9p
NEFER Bookcafe - 694 E. 241st Street, Bronx
RSVP in bio
05/15/2026
cute bag. cute people. cute afternoon.
Join us at NEFER for our Chunky Mandu Bag Workshop with —where we’re making wearable art and having a GOOD time while we do it. no crochet hooks. no experience needed. just vibes, laughs, snacks, music, and your new favorite bag waiting to happen.
Saturday, May 30, 2026
3:00–4:30p
NEFER Bookcafé
694 E. 241st Street, Bronx
All materials provided. come solo or bring your people. Nah, definitely bring your people. We love to see it.
05/15/2026
Another kick back with NEFER x May 21, from 7-10. The one and only Steam and Sound, a sonic ritual.
05/14/2026
Some stories do not loosen their grip on a city. They linger in the walls, in memory, in the language people use when they try to explain why they still gather, protest, mourn, and demand more.
In 1984, Eleanor Bumpurs — a 66-year-old Black grandmother living in public housing in the Bronx — was killed by NYPD officers during an attempted eviction. The violence of her death reverberated far beyond her apartment, becoming a defining moment in New York City’s reckoning with racist policing.
Join us at NEFER Bookcafe for an evening with historian LaShawn Harris as she discusses Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City — a deeply researched and profoundly intimate work that restores Eleanor Bumpurs to the center of her own story.
In conversation with Andre Easton, Harris explores memory, archival history, Black womanhood, community witness, and the movements born in the aftermath of loss.
Thursday, May 28, 2026
Time: 7 - 9P
NEFER Bookcafe 694 E. 241st Street, Bronx, NY
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05/13/2026
05/12/2026
Somebody smelling like sandalwood and good intentions.
NEFER x KARATNYC invites you to We Met at NEFER — Speed Dating Game Night
An evening for the lovers, the soft talkers, the intentional daters.
Only and could set the mood like this. RSVP in bio.
Saturday, May 30
6PM–10PM
NEFER Bookcafé
694 E 241st Street, Bronx
05/10/2026
The one and only is arranging custom bouquets until 5! Stop by and get a bouquet or a coffee cup arrangement!
The bookcafe is open too!
Address
694 E 241st Street
The Bronx, NY
10470
To reach your destination at E 241st Street in New York, you have a couple of options for public transport and driving.
**Public Transport:**
1. **Subway:** Take the 2 train towards Wakefield-241st Street. Get off at the last stop, which is also Wakefield-241st Street. From there, it's a short walk east to E 241st Street.
2. **Bus:** You can take the Bx30 or Bx34 bus routes that run along White Plains Road. Get off at the nearest stop to E 241st Street and walk a few blocks east.
**Driving/Parking:**
1. If you're driving, take the Bronx River Parkway or I-95 to get to East 241st Street.
2. There may be street parking available in the area, but be sure to check for any parking restrictions or meters.
3. Alternatively, you can look for nearby parking garages if street parking is limited.
Make sure to plan your trip according to traffic conditions or public transport schedules!
Opening Hours
| Monday |
6am - 6pm |
| Tuesday |
6am - 6pm |
| Wednesday |
6am - 6pm |
| Thursday |
6am - 6pm |
| Friday |
6am - 6pm |
| Saturday |
9am - 2pm |
| Sunday |
9am - 2pm |
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What people say
Nefer Bookcafé on E 241st Street is a vibrant haven for coffee lovers and book enthusiasts alike. This unique space combines the warmth of a cozy coffee bar with the intellectual stimulation of a bookstore, creating an inviting atmosphere that encourages exploration and conversation.
The café is home to a community of liberated minds and critical thinkers who are passionate about nurturing identity, joy, and purpose through literature. Visitors can indulge in delicious coffees and teas while immersing themselves in thought-provoking reads or engaging in meaningful discussions with fellow patrons.
One of the standout features of Nefer Bookcafé is its commitment to discovery. The café showcases beautiful art pieces, such as intricate string art from Kumasi, Ghana, adding an artistic flair to the environment that inspires curiosity and creativity.
Whether you're looking for a quiet corner to read or a lively spot to connect with others, Nefer Bookcafé offers an enriching experience that celebrates individuality and community spirit. It's more than just a coffee shop; it's a place where every visitor can feel seen, valued, and inspired.
