Handpicked Presents for 46 People - The Gift Finder 2009 -- New York Magazine

The “You Ask, We Find” Holiday Gift Guide

A bike that folds, two sets of pink baby booties, a beagle named Junior—people have pretty specific ideas about what makes The Perfect Gift, and still we agonize while shopping. Here, we polled the locals for their wish lists, then suggested one gift for each.

By Sarah Bernard & Aja Mangum
Published Nov 15, 2009

(Photo: Hannah Whitaker (Mackay); Courtesy of the vendor (pajamas))

“A Spider-Man web shooter and Spider-Man pajamas.”
Sam MacKay, 3, preschool student
Spider-Man pajama set, $12.99 at Target , (139 Flatbush Ave., nr. Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn; 718-290-1109).

(Photo: Hannah Whitaker (Roxo); Courtesy of the vendor (dancer))

“Dance lessons at Alvin Ailey and a warm down coat with a furry hood.”
Alexandra Roxo, 25, filmmaker
Modern dance class, $25 for two classes (new student discount) at the Ailey Extension, (405 W. 55th St., at Ninth Ave.; 212-405-9500).