Greenpoint Fish & Lobster

The seafood counter

You have your favorite specialty grocers in NY: your Italian caterer in Chelsea, your butcher hidden behind a Japanese restaurant, your cheese shop at the end of an alley in the West Village. Finding good suppliers in New York is comparable to the work of digging for gold. A quest reserved for the indefatigable and savvy insiders. Looking for a fish stall? We’ll help you: we discovered a little marine paradise lost (and now found!) in Brooklyn. Close your eyes and picture the seaside, spray…

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Christmas wishlist

Christmas Wish List

You have two weeks left. Two weeks to finish (start?) your Christmas shopping. Two weeks to redouble your efforts and find the perfect gift. Two weeks to get over your agoraphobia and brave the crowds in department stores. You feel the pressure mounting? You’re lacking inspiration? We have scoured shops, boutiques, showrooms and other pop-up stores to find original and outside the box gift ideas without breaking the bank.   The paradise of pouches: Bag-all 219 Mott street, Nolita An abundance of pouches and fabric…

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RAC - Random Acts of Creativity

The shopaholic globetrotters

NY is to the serial shopper what Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory is to a chocoholic. An Eldorado. And yet, from the luxury boutique on 5th Avenue to the thrift store in Williamsburg, you might feel you have exhausted all the city’s resources. If, like us, you’re tired of mainstream brands and aspire to shake things up in your wardrobe for this summer season, we found the solution. It all comes down to 3 letters: R.A.C. And it opens today! RAC is not your ordinary boutique. It stands for “Random Acts of…

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Christmas Shopping

Christmas Shopping

Left picture: Miansai; Top right picture: Flying Tiger; bottom right picture: Clare V. The countdown has begun: T-22 to Christmas and you already have palpitations in anticipation of your shopping list. Come up with an idea, scour stores, brave the mob – the infernal triumvirate of the holiday season. We decided to help you by selecting three places of choice to shop for Christmas: For small budgets (and Secret Santa gifts): The Danish brand Flying Tiger just opened its first store in the United States….

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Commandment #8: Thou shalt shop on Sundays

NY is to the shopaholic what Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory is to chocoholics. An El Dorado. Shops everywhere, open 7/7, with tempting sales at -70% off. From the lavish boutiques on 5th Avenue to the thrift stores on the Lower East Side, this is the bottom line: you will find happiness. The trendy spot we would like to share with you today is “Story”. The idea of ​​the founder, Rachel Shechtman, was to shake up the routine of stores operating by collection and season and thus, radically…

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