New York Magazine

Since 1948, this donation-based shop benefiting the Arthritis Foundation’s New York City chapter has been a choice destination for designer hand-me-downs.

This tiny, glitzy Christmas store sells ornaments, nutcrackers, toys, and holiday kitsch year-round.

This colorful, kitschy store stocks affordable apparel and offbeat gifts.

This colorful, kitschy store stocks affordable apparel and offbeat gifts.

Though the striking offerings range from amateur collectors' items to bona fide art-world rarities, the main commodity here is weighty hardcover art tomes on Modernist art figures.

Affordable mid-century furniture and vintage miscellany.

A well-organized, mid-range department store focusing on a short list of discounted big-name brands.

This crowded, festive shop off Bowery supplies vibrant accessories, art, and home furnishings from Mexico.

The vibe is part New England gothic, part steampunk, at this charming antiques and home décor shop.

A cluttered treasure trove of vintage furniture, collectibles, and oddities.

This charming thrift shop offers a mash-up of clothes, books, costume jewelry, CDs, handbags, giftable glassware and frames, and more.

Former gallery owner Penine Hart’s art and antiques shop recalls a more bohemian Soho; happily, the prices are those of an earlier era, as well.

This narrow Japanese shop showcases swathes of artful architectural parchment paper and unusual gifts.

A gay gift store in the heart of Chelsea.

This crowded, kitschy shop is stocked with an array of gifts both effortless (picture frames, vases, artsy journals) and off-the-wall, like paparazzi action figures and Titanic-shaped ice-cube trays.

The first walk-in location of a longstanding Goth-apparel and social-networking site.

A self-proclaimed “junk shop” on the border of East Williamsburg and Bushwick, this thrift store is a jumble of secondhand clothing, furniture, toys, books, and assorted knickknacks.