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This boutique and gallery offers custom-made raincoats, new-age accessories, and hit-or-miss vintage clothes.

See the profile of this NYC store at 153 Lafayette St. in Manhattan.

This mixed-media gallery space and nonprofit organization sells ceramic tableware produced by local youth ages 17 to 22.

David Grohl and Sofia Coppola love Built by Wendy's adult-with-an-edge sensibility.

A Little Italy pastry palace, run by a single family since 1891.

Kids' things at their colorful, handmade-looking best.

This global-chic boutique stocks a wide range of high-end home accessories including natural-textile bedding and towels.

One-stop shopping here might bear such oddities as watermelon seeds to be eaten like unshelled sunflower seeds or Black Brother toothpaste, a counterfeit version of the infamous Chinese brand once called Darkie.

The duo behind East Village vintage standby Circa Now opened this second, contemporary boutique on the cusp of Little Italy, offering Off Bowery tees and Zig Zag shoes for men, and youthful, fashion-forward lines for women, like Kova&T lace leggings and Blank jeans.

A stylish shop that stocks all the ingredients you need for authentic tapas.

The claim to fame of this quintessential mom-and-pop corner store is its cheeses.

One of Chinatown’s reigning supersized supermarkets.

See the profile of this NYC store at 377 Broome St. in Manhattan.

The default choice when only the oldest, most famous Little Italy café will do.

Times change, but a good sandwich is eternal. Italian Food Center, a grocery and deli, has been brown-bagging first-rate, foot-long heroes since 1954.

Klurk’s internationally-flavored menswear is an affordable hybrid of Galliano edginess and Hong Kong pimp.

Downtown eyewear shop where the doctor always is in.

Comfort and a classic sensibility rule at this expanding furniture empire.

Parsons grad Mami Suzuki fills this narrow boutique with her own line of silky, expertly draped dresses and jackets, as well as a roster of hard-to-find designers from Japan.

Diminutive Little Italy cigar shop with its own hand-rolled line.

Unconventional vintage and new clothing, including the label’s own namesake dresses.

T-shirts are literally works of art at this East Village men's boutique.

This Barcelona-based artisanal-candy boutique caters to progressive sugar lovers, crafting colorful hard candies decked with intricate designs.

Traditional Chinese garments and sparkly accessories.

This movie-memorabilia shop specializes in collectible original posters from around the world, spanning the silent era to the present.