Almost nobody here has a porch with a card table out front, so most of the home baking on this page moves on a drop schedule instead. Mikey's Pies bakes with seasonal, local ingredients and asks you to sign up on the website to get in on the next batch, and closetohomebakery, a NYC sourdough-based dessert shop, runs the same way: sign up for order notifications and watch for when the next one opens. You order ahead, you get the message, you go pick it up.
Sourdough is well represented, from Crust & The City baking it at home in New York City to katiecakesnyc, a microbakery built around sourdough bread and the order link in its bio. The cake side is just as deep, with custom and birthday cakes you message someone about before they bake. There are also bakers working a specific angle: Dear Dough handles gluten and dairy free, and Vegan Bakery is an Asian American shop that will veganize the dessert you grew up on. A few state their corner of the city plainly, so you know roughly where pickup lands. Cresci's Cookies & Confections bakes cookies, brownies, and bars with pickup in Harlem; CaraYorkCake works out of Brooklyn; C&J Bakehouse is over on Long Island.
Across all of them the pickup logic is the same: order through a website or a form, send a DM, or get on a notification list, then arrange to grab it direct from the baker and pay them direct. These are neighbors baking from home, not shops with a counter. Every page here is owner-managed, with a correction email and neighbor reports keeping the listings honest. Listing a porch shop is always free, so if you bake from a New York kitchen and you are not on this page yet, there is room for you.