The women, dressed in traditional clothing, looked uncomfortable amid the downtown crowd sipping lattes and herbal tea.

On weekends they sit in coffeehouses, sipping lattes and tea, and sometimes talking about literature.

Some passengers looked on curiously, while others read their newspaper comics, sipped lattes or did the subway stare.

Images of demiclad stars pushing strollers and sipping lattes are ubiquitous, filtering into the culture by way of cable networks like E!

Mr. Goldman and his son said they envision the streets of Wynwood filled with artists sipping lattes.

Or the older, more athletic pair, dressed ostentatiously, sipping lattes as they wandered along the avenues of gluttony.

The people sipping lattes at the new Intermission Cafe are young, trendy and non-Hispanic.

Elsewhere, customers are sipping lattes and looking over shelves of best-selling books, newspapers and sexually explicit magazines.

People here are sipping lattes while translating Dante into Finnish and doing equations in string theory.

Next door, inside a year-old cafe/video store/exhibition space with wireless Internet access called the Archive, creative types sipped lattes and pounded away on laptops.