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Best Place to Get a Cheap Last-Minute Gift

Annie's Blue Ribbon in Boerum Hill.

(Photo: Courtesy of Annie's Blue Ribbon)

Annie’s Blue Ribbon General Store

365 State St., at Bond St., Boerum Hill; 718-522-9848

A birthday, a baby shower, a colleague’s going-away party? Annie’s Blue Ribbon will come through. Its stock runs from decorative cotton dish towels handwoven with the words eat at home; piggy banks in the shape of giant gummy bears; CDs with lullaby versions of Nirvana, U2, and Coldplay; or cult beauty products like Japanese Yu-Be skin cream. The best part: Most items are under $20.

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From the 2009 Best of New York issue of New York Magazine

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Our mission this year: to hunt down not just the best but the best values in the eating, shopping, drinking, and general-consuming universe of New York. It’s quite the process, this, requiring eating and shopping and drinking (all in the name of research), followed by heated but civil discussion, and heated but less-civil discussion, until a winner emerges in each category.