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This choice vintage shop focuses on feminine, flowing styles from the sixties and seventies, especially mod disco dresses and colorful knee-length skirts.

Substance and style unite at this hub for environmentally friendly lifestyle products.

Designer and hard-to-find brands, smart-looking sneakers, and hippy-chic casual wear.

A Park Slope shop for skater girls and girly-girls alike.

An artist’s studio that doubles as a store featuring funky, conversation-starting accessories and womenswear.

Milkmaid glasses and skull mugs in the kitchen section peer across the cavernous showroom at animal print throw pillows and Calligaris dining tables.

An Italian gourmet shop that makes its own sausages, mozzarella, and meatballs. Sandwiches also for sale.

Walk that fine line between upscale and funky at Alice Cheng's simple, ladylike shop.

Frequented by foodies, this quirky Brooklyn cookware shop rivals the best in Manhattan.

The company is known for handling opulent silks and damasks, which means they can certainly tackle your couch from, say, Crate and Barrel.

Score half-price discounts on the past APC collections in this covetable but thinly stocked high-end outlet.

A home-accessories shop with Hable Construction pillows, Italian linens, and Madeline Weinrib area rugs.

This sleek home-design store stocks upscale furnishings, gadgetry, and décor for the kitchen, dining room, bedroom, and living room.

This eccentric boutique and gallery stocks jewelry, glassware, and new and vintage apparel from Tokyo, London, L.A., and New York.

Underground boutique serves up original streetwear by Crown Heights designers.

An experts-only getaway for jazz and classical music junkies, and those who long for the forgotten days of vinyl.

Acme's signature smoked fish and salads at wholesale prices do a brisk Friday business in industrial Greenpoint.

Well-designed, battery-free toys intended to spark a child’s imagination.

Teens and preteens rush to this epicenter of trends.

See the profile of this NYC store at 4802 Glenwood Rd. in Brooklyn.

On Sundays, the after-church crowd descends on this Caribbean mainstay for flaky turnovers and freshly baked breads, rolls, and cakes.

Unapologetically low-budget, this family-run wine shop skimps on the pretense but delivers the basic goods with a decent assortment of bottles under $10.

Jacques Torres enlists Hervé Poussot (formerly of Le Bernardin) for this cafe, which sells organic bread baked thrice daily.

This 2,000-square-foot industrial space is a combination streetwear store, spray-paint supplier, and street-art gallery.

Don't mind the shabby-looking grocery setup in the back – the front deli counter is the main attraction here.