Lower East Side, New York Shopping; Lower East Side, New York Stores

Alife

In Alife, the full breadth and depth of the Alife brand come to life. While their shoe line is widely available in hip boutiques across the country, their other products are not. The spacious, classy store carries Alife's T-shirts, jeans, shoes and jewelry. The product is hip, clever, well-constructed and designed, and unlike most...

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Alife Rivington Club

The non-descript storefront, the ring-the-doorbell policy, and the large members-only insignia on floor as you walk does a good job of making you feel that you are actually in an exclusive club as you enter Alife Rivington Club. This posh wood-paneled club deals only in the finest shoes. Exclusive sneakers from Nike, Adidas and friends,...

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Annie O

As hotels increasingly market a lifestyle more than just a place to sleep, it makes perfect sense to sell elements on said lifestyle right there on the premises. Enter Annie 0., a cubby hole of a space on the lobby of the Hotel on Rivington. Jewelry, handbags, watches, design items, new and vintage, minimal and ornate, make the already stunning...

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Assembly

While still having an eye for up and coming fashion talents, Assembly honors the past as much as the future. This is reflected in the ambiance, in the prominently display selection of vintage clothing, accessories and objects, but also in the curation of new clothing and accessories. Surrounded by vintage and antique items that are desirable and...

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Bblessing

Bblessing is that rare so-called lifestyle store that has us looking at the living it promotes and shouting "one large Kool-Aid on the rocks please." First off we'd briskly ditch our digs to live in the moodily lit, richly furnished interior. The clothing all around is cool without being obnoxious, and mixes Ts and denim with...

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Doyle & Doyle

It's a little known fact that the jewelry collection (see also: ice, bling) of grandmothers ranks second only to that of rappers. Doyle & Doyle however, knows this too well. The store specializes in estate and antique jewelry that runs the gamut in style from Victorian extravagance to Art Deco charm. Most items are gold and platinum...

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Economy Candy

Is there a candy in the world that Economy Candy doesn't stock? We certainly couldn't stump them. The old school emporium of all things sweets stocks everything from penny candies to deluxe bittersweet chocolate, the latest processed sugar creations to candies that have been around for a century or more. If it's not here,...

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Ekovaruhuset

Solar panels in place, low energy light bulbs screwed in, no green lifestyle is complete without at least a few pieces of organic, fair trade clothing. At Ekovaruhuset, finding attractive, covetable organic clothing is all too easy--indeed, never has off white looked so stylish. Propreitor Johanna Hofring has assembled an international roster...

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Foley + Corinna

Even half of Foley + Corinna is better than the whole of most stores. You could be looking at the stylish knits dresses, and tops designed by Dana Foley. Or you may be foraging through the funky vintage clothing and accessories collected Ana Corinna. Either way, you can't go wrong. Mix and match Foley's creations with Corinna's...

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Freemans Sporting Club

Freemans Sporting Club has all the Old World style that its name might suggest, but dated it is not. Fashioned like a gentleman's clothier of yore, the shop alternates between the classic and the hip. On the one had we have jackets and coats in thick herringbone fabrics and crisp white and blue shirts. Steps away are hip graphic T-shirts in...

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Gargyle

Gargyle takes inspiration in the country club of yore, where having fun—while stylishly dressed of course—was paramount. Indeed, all the clothes at Gargyle are clothes one can have fun in: swimsuits for a day at the beach, cute shorts for the day on the courts, sumptuous frocks and patent leather lace-ups for a night on the town. Primarily an...

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Girls Love Shoes

Girls Love Shoes. What else needs to be said? Maybe that girls have loved shoes ever since they realized walking barefoot through the jungle gave them blisters. Girls Love Shoes is a like a history lesson in women's love of shoes. The shop collects vintage shoes of all imaginable colors, shapes, styles and ages, over 2000 pairs in all....

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Honey In The Rough

Honey in the Rough is in fact a perfect description. Amid the urban landscape that's rapidly reinventing itself but still a bit rough around the edges, Honey in the Rough is a spoon full on unfettered sweetness. The roster of designers draws from Japan, Brooklyn and myriad places in between focusing on dresses with one-of-a-kind prints,...

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Le Sous Sol

In the '80s the Antwerp Six introduced the world at large to Belgian fashion design, and decades later the country is still going strong, producing one influential, imminently talent designer after another. At Le Sous Sol, get a peek at the next wave of Belgian talent. The shop uses regular buying trips to Antwerp to seek out smaller...

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Maryam Nassir Zadeh

Maryam Nassir Zadeh is a gallery like boutique just on the outskirts of the guided-tour heavy Lower East Side. The boutique/gallery offers a well-curated array of independent designers. Clothing for men and women hang adjacent to modernist sculpture, while tables of sculptural jewelry site alongside with vintage accessories and ephemera. You can...

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Nakedeye

Nakedeye manages to stock niche labels even high-end optical boutiques overlook, and provides service and gentle opinions volume eyewear outlets couldn't think to provide. Tie that up in a modern, yet cozy environment and you have an ideal eyewear shopping experience. Go for stylish, unique eyeglasses, but go especially for some killer...

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New Museum

Without the space of more well-to-do cultural institutions, the New Museum shop aims for maximum impact. The main attraction is naturally the wall of art books and magazines. The cosmopolitan, thought-provoking selection is worth a long, considered peruse. As for gift items, how about a commemorative plate with a scrawny naked man on it, a tea...

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Pear

Sister store and neighbor to Plum, Pear brings the same cute, feminine aesthetic to footwear. The boudoir setting plays host to unique flats, pumps and boots from a series of under the radar footwear lines. The enlightened selection goes from the ornate to the dead simple and prices range from under a hundred to over five hundred dollars.

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Pixie Market

With Pixie Market, fashion fans can have their cake and eat it too. The shop has assembled a truly cosmopolitan collection of clothing and accessories coming from small, sprightly designers. Pixie Market subscribes to the "fashion is supposed be fun" school of dressing--expect bright colors, playful patterns and wearable silhouettes....

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Plum

As a stylist your raison d'etre is to say ahead of the fashion curve. As a store co-founded by a TV and commercial stylist, Plum serves a similar purpose. The store taps in to the wealth of fashion talent in New York and around the country and presents a collection of beautiful, creative and generally affordable pieces from a roster of...

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Self Edge

The phrase Self Edge might not mean anything to the average person, but to the denim aficionado it's like a secret password into a world where shuttle looms and indigo dye, warp and weft are points of discussion. Self Edge is the origin of the term "selvage" which refers to denim typically woven on narrower looms, that are then...

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Some Odd Rubies

Some Odd Rubies concerns itself mainly with diamonds in the rough. The shop scours the country for promising vintage fashions and transforms them into modern garments. While the bold prints and colors of the original vintage garments remain, what changes mainly are the silhouettes, fits and finishes to make them more wearable by modern...

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Sugarhead Quarters

Among high style concept boutiques that present T-shirts and sneakers as high art, Sugarhead Quarters is a simple, artful respite. Hanging out on a few racks and a few steel tables are a impressive collection of T-shirts from smallish designers in Europe, America and Japan. Cool toys, accessories and other arty randomness are lounging about....

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TG-170

Just about every women's clothing boutique likes to think of itself a pioneering trend-setter, but in rare cases is this actually true. TG-170 is indeed a genuine trendsetter. The store was the first boutique in the Lower East Side and has a long tradition of carrying a mix of new, edgy designers with some more established names mixed in....

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The Reed Space

At The Reed Space, fashion, art and design are fast friends. The shop/art gallery also happens to be the retail project of design house Staple Design. Sharp graphic T-shirts, sweaters and hoodies are in abundance, in a row running the length of the store, complete with signs detailing the designers' background. The shirts represent...

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Alife

Alife Rivington Club

Annie O

Assembly

Bblessing

Doyle & Doyle

Economy Candy

Ekovaruhuset

Foley + Corinna

Freemans Sporting Club

Gargyle

Girls Love Shoes

Honey In The Rough

Le Sous Sol

Maryam Nassir Zadeh

Nakedeye

New Museum

Pear

Pixie Market

Plum

Self Edge

Some Odd Rubies

Sugarhead Quarters

TG-170

The Reed Space

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