Annie Goodman’s taken over a ground-level store below her space, and Annie & Company is now 3,000 square feet of handwork bliss.

After fifteen years in a tiny West Village outpost that was principally a workshop, jeweler Wendy Mink has moved to a 500-square-foot Lower East Side boutique.

On the industrial border between Greenpoint and Williamsburg, a few minutes’ walk from the L train’s Bedford stop, is Gutter, a new bar with eight bowling lanes.

It’s hard to imagine that it took Gant a mere four months to take its Fifth Avenue flagship from an unremarkable sportswear emporium to something so artful.

Gosia Goclowska, who recently became a mom, couldn’t find a shop that appealed directly to children. So she teamed with her sister to open a place that would try to be less pretentious and more cheery than the rest.

With the opening of Crazy for Animals at the Shops at Atlas Park mall, dogs have new, more attractive ways to contribute to the environment.

The freshly minted ê Shave, the concept of former sculptor Danielle Malka, elevates shaving accoutrements to art forms.

At Greenwich Village’s Beauty Jewel spa there’s pampering without pretension.

San Francisco–based surf shop Mollusk (718-218-7456) has washed up on Metropolitan Avenue, at River Street, in Williamsburg.

Unlike the designs of other bridal costume jewelers, Siman Tu’s handmade designs are sophisticated and dazzling—and, admittedly, more expensive.