Top Choice Vintage in Financial District & Lower Manhattan
Philip Williams Posters
You'll find nearly half a million posters in this cavernous treasure trove, from oversized French advertisements for perfume and cognac to Eastern European film posters and retro-fab promos for TWA. Prices range fro…
Top Choice Fashion & Accessories in Financial District & Lower Manhattan
Century 21
For penny-pinching fashionistas, this giant cut-price department store is dangerously addictive. Physically dangerous as well, considering the elbows you might have to throw to ward off the competition beelining for…
Top Choice Gifts in Midtown
MoMA Design & Book Store
The flagship store at the Museum of Modern Art is a fab spot for souvenir shopping. Besides gorgeous books (from art and architecture tomes to pop-culture readers and kids' picture books), you'll find art prints and…
Top Choice Fashion & Accessories in SoHo & Chinatown
Saturdays
SoHo's version of a surf shop sees boards and wax paired up with designer grooming products, graphic art and surf tomes, and Saturdays' own line of high-quality, fashion-literate threads for dudes. Styled-up, grab a…
Top Choice Cosmetics in SoHo & Chinatown
MiN New York
This super-friendly, chic, library-like fragrance apothecary has exclusive perfumes, bath and grooming products, and scented candles. Look out for artisanal fragrance 'stories' from MiN's own line. Prices span affor…
Top Choice Books in West Village, Chelsea & Meatpacking District
Strand Book Store
Beloved and legendary, the iconic Strand embodies downtown NYC's intellectual bona fides – a bibliophile's Oz, where generations of book lovers carrying the store's trademark tote bags happily lose themselves for ho…
Top Choice Department Store in Financial District & Lower Manhattan
Pearl River Mart
Pearl River has been a downtown shopping staple for 40 years, chock-full of a dizzying array of Asian gifts, housewares, clothing and accessories: silk men's pajamas, cheongsam dresses, blue-and-white Japanese ceram…
Top Choice Market in Brooklyn: Williamsburg, Greenpoint & Bushwick
Artists & Fleas
In operation for over a decade, this popular Williamsburg flea market has an excellent selection of crafty goodness. Over a hundred artists, designers and vintage vendors sell their wares: clothing, records, paintin…
Fashion & Accessories in SoHo & Chinatown
3x1
Design your most flattering pair of jeans at this bespoke denim factory/showroom, with three levels of service. Quick, on-the-spot 'ready-to-wear' lets you choose the hem for ready-to-wear denim (women's from $250, …
Department Store in Midtown
Barneys
Serious fashionistas swipe their plastic at Barneys, respected for its collections of top-tier labels like Isabel Marant Étoile, Mr & Mrs Italy and Lanvin. For (slightly) less expensive deals geared to a younger…