Best gift shops: Long Island City

By Time Out editors Mon Nov 14 2011

100 best gift shops

Slovak-Czech Varieties

Slovak-Czech Varieties Photograph: Caroline Voagen Nelson

Slovak-Czech Varieties store in Long Island City

Slovak-Czech Varieties

  • Price band: 2/4

A miscellany of glass bibelots, wooden toys and industrial-looking housewares round out this ethnic department store’s oddball offerings. A jaunt through its aisles feels like a visit to an old-world shop, via Czech board games ($25–$30) and retro calendars of Slovakian mountain ranges ($8). Electrical-outlet converters ($3) and vanilla-scented air fresheners patterned after Slovak currency ($3) make fun prevoyage mementos for anyone jonesing to visit Eastern Europe.

  1. 10-59 Jackson Ave, (between 49th and 50th Aves)
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