Best gift shops: West Village/Greenwich Village
Fri Nov 9 2012
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Bushwick
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Boerum Hill
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Red Hook
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DUMBO
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Cobble Hill
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Park Slope
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Carroll Gardens
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Astoria
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Long Island City
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East Village
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Lower East Side
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Chelsea
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Soho
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Nolita
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Hell's Kitchen
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Midtown West
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Midtown East
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Gramercy
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West Village/Greenwich Village
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Meatpacking District
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Upper East Side
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Upper West Side
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Harlem
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Greenpoint
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Crown Heights
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Williamsburg
100 best gift shops
Mxyplyzyk
AC Gears
- Price band: 1/4
AC Gears’ second Manhattan shop (the first is in the East Village) is like Toys “R” Us for adults. The futuristic shop offers the newest electronics, cool gadgets and fun tchotchkes from around the world. Upon entering, you’ll find two small
- 106 Greenwich Ave between Jane and W 14th Sts
Accessorize
- Price band: 1/4
Watch your back, Claire’s: A new dirt-cheap costume-jewelry shop has surfaced. U.K. retailer Accessorize is finally bringing its trendy, affordable designs across the pond to a West Village storefront (with a Union Square location opening November
- 329 Bleecker St at Christopher St
Bookmarc
- Price band: 1/4
Designer Marc Jacobs’s West Village empire continues to expand with the opening of this high-fashion bookstore, which has replaced the beloved Biography Book Shop. Though Biography’s blond-wood shelving remains, its memoirs have been replaced with
- 400 Bleecker St at 11th St
Considerosity
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
Gift-giving is a whole lot easier with this cozy West Village boutique, whose selection of pretty, tasteful items—ranging from handmade jewelry ($30–$150) to artisanal home goods ($15–$50)—offers something for every hostess, birthday girl and
- 191 W 4th St, (between Barrow and Jones Sts )
Diptyque
- Price band: 2/4
This Parisian perfumer, known for its high-end handmade candles, lights up Bleecker Street with its first NYC store. Reminiscent of a modern-day boudoir, the cozy space is decked out in white-feathered crystal chandeliers, Lucite furniture and
- 377 Bleecker St between Charles and Perry Sts
Glassybaby
- Price band: 2/4
With three locations in and around Seattle, Glassybaby opens its first East Coast store in the West Village, selling owner and founder Lee Rhodes’s brightly colored handmade glass votives. A team of 30 people in Seattle handblow small votives ($42)
- 555 Hudson St, (between Perry and W 11th Sts)
Greenwich Letter Press
- Price band: 2/4
This stationery store—with exposed brick, cheerful floral wallpaper and a pink overhanging lamp—exudes West Village charm. It’s owned by sisters Amy Swanson and Beth Salvini, whose family has been in the printing biz for three generations, and
- 39 Christopher St, (between Seventh Ave South and Waverly Pl)
Lomography Gallery Shop
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
What started with two Austrian students discovering a small Russian camera in the 1990s resulted in a company, community and movement based on experimental, color-saturated snapshots taken with Lomo cameras. This one-stop analog shop attracts
- 41 W 8th St between Fifth and Sixth Aves
Mxyplyzyk
- Price band: 1/4
- Critics choice
New York apartments are notoriously small, so finding home goods that do double duty is a necessity. At this shop (whose impossible-to-pronounce name refers to an old Superman comic-book character), almost every practical item also functions just as
- 125 Greenwich Ave, (at 13th St)
OHWOW Book Club
- Price band: 1/4
Underground in more ways than one (the shop is below street level, and it’s as indie as they come), this Laundromat turned reading room is the latest project to come from Aaron “A-Ron the Downtown Don” Bondaroff. Since getting his start as the face
- 227 Waverly Pl, (between W 11th and Perry Sts)
