Which is the best THRIFT STORE in the city? This is what we've received and reviewed. All sell furniture (sorry, Sadie, Beacon's Closet doesn't). Check out the links below the jump and vote here.
Arthritis Foundation - Third Ave. bet. 78th & 79th. Street.
I vote for Angel Street in Chelsea! I also like the Park Slope flea market.
I guarantee you it's in an outer borough.
Housing Works Thrift Shops
Goodwill people! Goodwill rocks! Especially the one one 23rd between 2nd and 3rd. Goodwill has a special relationship with Target so the store is always flooded with Target products.
what about beacon's closet? you can bring in your old clothes and get credit for new ones. and it actually have real thrift store prices. my boyfriend bought a pinstripe blazer there for $18 last weekend and I got a winter scarf for $4. and there's one in park slope and williamsburg.
Housing Works all the way.
The only thing that kind of bugs me about Housing Works is that they're kind of picky about what they'll take.
Council Thrift Shop - 246 E. 84th St - Between 2nd & 3rd. ave.
Housing Works is too much of a scene for me -- nearly always crowded -- but along with Angel Street it has the best assortment of dishes and glassware and good labels shows up often (Iittala, Arabia). City Opera is overpriced. At Goodwill, you won't find high-end decorative objects but -- believe it or not -- clothing can be exchanged; you can actually take stuff back if you try it on at home and you don't like it. That's the only thrift store I'm aware of that has that policy. There's a wonderfully clean, new Goodwill on 26th Street off 6th, directly opposite the Chelsea Flea Market garage building. It is never crowded, has a LOT of new stuff (Target/Isaac Mizrahi items nearly always available), there are TWO clean dressing rooms and a lot of inventory. MUCH nicer than the East 23rd Street Goodwill. Another good thrift store is on 2nd Avenue and 27th Street (on the west side of the street); can't remember its name though. Got a B&B Italia Tobia Scarpa leather "Coronado" couch there for less than $100!
there is also a city opera on 23rd b/w 2nd and 3rd, right next to the goodwill and salvation army.
Be honest; they're all hit or miss. But I've always found, for what it's worth, good dining chairs at Housing Works and some strangely stylish objects (including an obelisk-shaped bookcase that's pure Nancy Lancaster and an octagonal center table that is absolutely David Hicks meets Harvey Probber) at the Salvation Army in the West 40s.
Thank you for posting all these comments...I am coming to NY for business and wanted to check out some stores.
Does anyone know a good site that would list all the best thrift stores/ vintage shops in the city?
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Arthritis Foundation - Third Ave. bet. 78th & 79th. Street.
I vote for Angel Street in Chelsea! I also like the Park Slope flea market.
I guarantee you it's in an outer borough.
Housing Works Thrift Shops
Goodwill people! Goodwill rocks! Especially the one one 23rd between 2nd and 3rd. Goodwill has a special relationship with Target so the store is always flooded with Target products.
what about beacon's closet? you can bring in your old clothes and get credit for new ones. and it actually have real thrift store prices. my boyfriend bought a pinstripe blazer there for $18 last weekend and I got a winter scarf for $4. and there's one in park slope and williamsburg.
Housing Works all the way.
The only thing that kind of bugs me about Housing Works is that they're kind of picky about what they'll take.
Council Thrift Shop - 246 E. 84th St -
Between 2nd & 3rd. ave.
Housing Works is too much of a scene for me -- nearly always crowded -- but along with Angel Street it has the best assortment of dishes and glassware and good labels shows up often (Iittala, Arabia). City Opera is overpriced. At Goodwill, you won't find high-end decorative objects but -- believe it or not -- clothing can be exchanged; you can actually take stuff back if you try it on at home and you don't like it. That's the only thrift store I'm aware of that has that policy. There's a wonderfully clean, new Goodwill on 26th Street off 6th, directly opposite the Chelsea Flea Market garage building. It is never crowded, has a LOT of new stuff (Target/Isaac Mizrahi items nearly always available), there are TWO clean dressing rooms and a lot of inventory. MUCH nicer than the East 23rd Street Goodwill. Another good thrift store is on 2nd Avenue and 27th Street (on the west side of the street); can't remember its name though. Got a B&B Italia Tobia Scarpa leather "Coronado" couch there for less than $100!
there is also a city opera on 23rd b/w 2nd and 3rd, right next to the goodwill and salvation army.
Be honest; they're all hit or miss. But I've always found, for what it's worth, good dining chairs at Housing Works and some strangely stylish objects (including an obelisk-shaped bookcase that's pure Nancy Lancaster and an octagonal center table that is absolutely David Hicks meets Harvey Probber) at the Salvation Army in the West 40s.
Thank you for posting all these comments...I am coming to NY for business and wanted to check out some stores.
Does anyone know a good site that would list all the best thrift stores/ vintage shops in the city?
vanessa, try city search.