Spending your days wandering around thrift stores and antique stores is a sure-fire way to ensure your closet and home are filled with the best, one-of-a-kind items. And while you’re bound to find great pieces at both types of stores, antique stores typically carry items that are a little more valuable than those items found in thrift stores.
NYC is filled to the brim with cool, quirky antique stores, and you’ll likely have to go through a lot of trial and error to find the best ones out there. To save you some time we did the work for you and gathered together ten of the best antique stores in NYC. We even included a map at the bottom so you can visualize exactly where each store is.
1. White Trash
White Trash is a small space located in the East Village where you’ll find no shortage of mid-century modern furnishings dating from the 40’s through to the 70’s. Because the space is small the inventory changes rapidly, but you’re bound to find something great there nonetheless.
Where: 304 E 5th St
More info: their website.
2. Demolition Depot and Irreplaceable Artifacts
Demolition Depot has a pretty large collection of architectural artifacts. This four-floor store tries hard to preserve architectural history, and among its rescued pieces you’ll find plumbing fixtures, doors, shutters, grills, mantels, gates, and much more.
Where: 159-161 E 126th St
More info: their website.
3. BK Antiques
BK Antiques sells European antiques as well as contemporary finds such as art, furniture, lighting, and accessories, all hand-selected by owner and founder Barbara Kirshbaum. This antique store is a good place to find pieces from places throughout Europe and Asia.
Where: 306 East 61st St, 2nd Floor
More info: their website.
4. Yesterday’s News Antiques and Collectibles
Yesterday’s News has a lot of items to browse through, but if you take your time here you’ll find vintage jewelry, clothing, furniture, and other random knick knacks and collectibles such as postcards and ceramics.
Where: 428 Court St
More info: their website.
5. Furnish Green
Furnish Green brings 15-35 new items to the heart of Midtown every weekday. At Furnish Green you’ll find cleaned and well-made antique furniture, lighting, and decor, and they even have their own blog with photos of purchased pieces in customers’ homes to give you some decorating ideas. Because their website is constantly being updated you can also shop online.
Where: 132 ½ W 24th St
More info: their website.
6. More & More Antiques
More & More Antiques specializes in European and American antiques that they make readily available to NYers through their brick and mortar location. They’re a great place to stop if you’re looking for home pieces like chandeliers.
Where: 378 Amsterdam Ave
More info: their website.
7. Seidenberg Antiques
Occupying a 5,000 square foot storefront in Greenwich Village is Seidenberg Antiques, a shop that meticulously displays its selection of fine antiques. With customers that include political and royal personages, curators, collectors, and decorators searching for 18th and 19th century antiques to add to their collection, it’s definitely a shop worth stopping at.
Where: 36 E 12th St # 1
More info: their website.
8. No Particular Hours
No Particular Hours is filled to the brim with vintage good and industrial artifacts. With furniture pieces, vintage electronics, housewares, and more, there’s a ton of items to choose from.
Where: 247 W 16th St
More info: their Instagram.
9. Brooklyn Vintiques
Brooklyn Vintiques is home to a ton of different vintage items such as decorative globes and wicker picnic baskets. The best part — the shop is reasonably priced unlike many antique stores out there.
Where: 146 S 2nd St
More info: their Instagram.
10. Pippin Home & Jewelry
Pippin Home is an 1850s cottage full of the best antique items from trinkets, furniture, and collectables to clothing, pottery, and art. This shop stands next to Pippin Jewelry, which, of course, is filled with the nicest antique jewelry you can find.
Where: 104 W 17th St
More info: their website.