We are creating a registry of public places that play absolutely no music. While we have been known to tolerate, even love, NYC establishments which play soft classical or jazz (e.g. Café Sabarsky, Elephant & Castle, North Square, &c.) they are not candidates for places quiet.
Our goals are shared by pipedown.info who fight the plague of "piped music", a term referring to unwanted background music. Whether a bar is filled with human voices or the sounds of a busy nearby road, it is still a "place quiet" in the sense that it does not subject patrons or employees to piped music.
Please help out by sharing quiet places with us via pull requests on our github repo or by sending a note to blankman@boustro.com. For each location you suggest, please include the last time you visited.