The Best and Most Giftable New York City Merch

Museum and gallery merch

LES-specific Christmas-tree decoration.

A regal desk companion.

A souvenir from a trip to New York that doesn’t exist yet, from the New Museum.

A winter-ready beanie that references everyone’s favorite blue whale.

Basketball socks worthy of Andy Warhol.

Celebrate this year’s grand reopening with a round of golf.

For thirsty art fans.

A Neue planner for the new year.

For the kid who commutes to school.

A crewneck to wear around the house that will look even better once it’s broken in.

For design-y babies.

The Schomburg Center’s art installation Rivers can now prevent coffee rings.

Food and drink merch

A swaggy sturgeon cap.

The likes of Paul Mescal and Ramy Youssef have been spotted in Montague Diner merch.

Clean socks featuring dirty martinis.

Save them the trek out to Red Hook.

Zabar’s merch is the best priced in the city, so you may as well add some bagels to your cart alongside this cheerful apron.

For the co-worker who unapologetically shops at Manhattan’s Erewhon imitator.

For the roommate who always gets into Nightmoves.

A tee to help them remember the time they lined up for 45 minutes in the cold.

Downtown peppermill.

There’s an unexpected pastry-themed tribute to Clueless on the back of this one.

For the friend who rarely leaves Ridgewood.

That same friend may also enjoy this pin.

A keychain for Bemelmans barflies.

A cozy zip-up hoodie from New York City’s oldest candy store.

A beanie for anyone who takes their coffee with condensed milk.

For the DJ who has everything.

As far as white-tablecloth New York–restaurant merch goes, it’s hard to top the Odeon’s baseball cap.

As far as Bed-Stuy chicken-bar merch goes, it’s hard to top the Fly’s wine key.

Easier to snag than a table.

Sadly doesn’t seem to come with a free hot dog.

Ready to be piled high with homemade latkes.

This throwback tee will appeal to anybody who was a regular at the old location.

Ha’s hat.

For very casual cabaret fans.

For the tiki-drink lovers on your list.

For the chocolate-dip lovers on your list.

Hopefully they don’t spill their big tray chicken on it.

They can store all their old Playbills in this tote from the 92-year-old Theater District spot.

For the friend who lives for those disco fries.

For the friend who actually enjoys the San Gennaro festival.

For the friend who always steals the restaurant pen when the check comes.

This candle, appropriately, smells of freshly baked cookies.

For the most Upper West Side person you know.

For the most Williamsburg person you know.

For the dad who really, really loved A Complete Unknown.

Pastrami on rye not included (though you could, in fact, buy some pastrami — Katz’s ships).

Hand-pulled T-shirt.

You’ll be their hero if you get them this Italian-sandwich T-shirt.

This sweet Russ & Daughters kids’ T-shirt has “gift for a grandchild” written all over it.

Merch from iconic local businesses

Shutterbug cap.

Poetry-slam tee.

Neighborhood Spot’s eye-catching tribute to a Greenwich Village institution.

Other director designs include John Cassavetes, David Lynch, and Werner Herzog.

Uptown-girl lipstick.

For that person who has been complaining about OMNY a lot.

For the longtime local who still loves exploring.

A reissue of a 1981 Film Forum T-shirt designed by animator Robert Breer that could easily pass for authentic vintage.

This cap design from 1991 has also recently reemerged.

The official cigarette lighter of John Wilson’s Ridgewood cinema.

If they’re more of an Anthology fan, try this tote.

A reusable bag with a hint of ’80s Manhattan glamour.

Surely the most delightful T-shirt in the five boroughs.

A big red mug adorned with Pearl River Mart’s iconic lucky koi fish logo.

The oldest apothecary in America, which happens to be in the West Village, sells some discreet and classy merch.

A painted apron for cookbook collectors.

Gloves for the hands of young Saarinen fans.

Other city-based merch

For the recent transplant who somehow knows the history of every station.

Keep the memory of these sadly disappearing trash cans alive.

Mets beads.

Bert and Ernie Yankees poster, featuring the hat sundaes you can get at the stadium.

Strategist writer Dominique Pariso highly recommends gifting this pigeon, pointing out that “at just six bucks, the delight-to-price ratio is very high.”

For that SNL nerd who obsessively tracks the cast-member stats each season.

The most niche cap, from a store on the Lower East Side that specializes in them.

Fingers crossed for next season.

For the friend you do Seinfeld night with every year.

We pulled this playful 1982 design straight from our archives.

And this mug from a much more recent Cinematrix.

And, of course, the classic.