Horseman Antiques

Looking for a desk and willing to venture into the biggest smorgasbord of antiques on Atlantic Avenue? Horseman Antiques is an old school bricks and mortar operation (no website) that has been on Atlantic Avenue for 40 years. Repeatedly winning "best of..." awards (like this one below in Citysearch) they are an essential stop when looking for English, French, Empire and American mid-century modern furniture.

At first glance, Horseman Antiques looks like a quaintly cluttered curio shop one might encounter after taking a wrong turn on a Connecticut foliage trip. But closer scrutiny of this cavernous emporium reveals a top-notch selection of furniture. Eager hagglers can attempt to bargain for the choicest pieces--the experienced staff will wiggle a bit on prices, but know when to draw the line.

The warehouse on Atlantic is 25,000 square feet and will keep you busy for hours (if you want it to) and the prices are very good for New Yawk. Horseman still has another warehouse on Varick street (near Canal and the tunnel) through the end of the month, but the rent has been tripled and they are leaving - looking for a bargain? Stop buy soon. For the adventurous, they have a new, bigger store in Neptune, New Jersey which specializes in modern furniture. You have to dig, but the prices make it worth it. MGR

Manhattan Branch (closing late summer 2004)
121 Varick Street
NYC, NY 10013
Ph: (212) 462-4055

Horseman Antiques

351 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217, USA

718. 596.1048

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Comments (3)

I have to say I disagree with the negative comments put here. I found the buying experience fine - delivery took a while to sort out but throughout Frank was extremely helpful and communicative. And since the Brooklyn location is closing down, everything's on sale, so the prices are now ok too.

If you go in there with a lot of attitude, you'll certainly get plenty back, but I found if you're polite, then they are too.

Oh and yes there's a lot of rubbish there, but trawling through it all is kind of fun ...

I'm not anonymous. I'm sure the owner knows exactly who I am. They sold us a chair for $700 that broke within two weeks. They kept it five weeks trying to fix it. When we got it home, we tried sitting on it - it broke again immediately. They told us they had tried to repair it "out of the goodness of their hearts," and that they had another of our "one of a kind" chairs in the shop - we could "exchange" it but only if we paid them another $350. We decided not to give them any more of our money, since we feel like they knew it was broken when they sold it. We have filed a Better Business Bureau complaint, so I guess the owner can't say no one has filed a complaint on them anymore. Let us save you the trouble: If you see one of a kind cowhide Danish modern chairs, don't buy them. The only recourse we feel we have at this point is to warn everyone else to save their money and not buy from this shop. This was a splurge for us and we feel very, very burned since it was clearly defective when we bought it.