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    Yours Truly: Bushwick's Mini-Bloomingdale's

    Vintage clothing stores are popping up in the neighborhood – Nouveau Vieux and Tomahawk Salon and Boutique at The Loom, and NVU – but Jenny Musitano’s Yours Truly Brand retail store brings some Bloomingdale’s to Bushwick with new brands that are decidedly girly. Musitano’s store on Broadway – “Bushwick’s first and only girls’ boutique for girls looking to sweeten their wardrobes” – has existed since 2008, but it was open by appointment only. “I was waiting for the neighborhood to get better. Before, I didn’t consider the store to be ...

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    • 'I Like to Dig' - Vintage Chic Opens at Loom 

      Part of the fun of vintage clothes shopping is finding that diamond in the rough. But sometimes there’s a lot of "rough" to dig through. Fortunately, Shelby Lawson of Nouveau Vieux is happy to help.

    • Mopeds, New and Old, Get a Second Stroke

      There are obvious benefits to having a moped: It can free you from the schlep of cycling, the frustrations of public transport, and the cost of taking a car. A new moped shop aims to keep the hood supplied.

    • Tomahawk Salon Carves Out a New Niche

      Tomahawk Salon and Boutique has been open since early summer, featuring full salon services as well as clothing and accessories from emerging designers. Haircut-hoppers can end their search for the perfect cut, right here off Flushing Avenue.

    • Vintage Dress, Redefined on Central Avenue

      Sutti’s vintage dress shop is open a mere three hours a day during the week, but it’s well worth the trip if you are looking for truly unique vintage clothing.
    • 'Orphanage' Keeps Vintage Mopeds on the Road
      I may be married to my bicycle, but there is another moving object of envy on the streets of Bushwick: a sweet, vintage moped.
    • Brooklyn Vintage Furniture Opens in The Loom
      Paul Johnson’s White Street-based antique furniture service, Brooklyn Vintage, has graduated from its virtual existence into a bricks-and-mortar outlet at — where else? — The Loom.
    • Handmade Fashion Co-Op Comes to Flushing
      There’s a lot of handmade fashion in Bushwick. Now, there’s a new co-op boutique to sell it.
    • Yours Truly Boutique Brings Color to Broadway
      Jenny Musitano at Yours Truly on Broadway. -- Photo by Diego Cupolo Outside of Williamsburg or Park Slope and the like, it is a rare occasion to come across local designer-owned boutiques -- so the Yours Truly shop on Broadway near the Myrtle-Broadway J station might provoke a double-take. Under the striped shadows of the el, Jenny Musitano's white and pastel ...
    • Green Village Junk Shop: Scavenger's Wonderland
      Not much to look at, but Green Village Junk Shop gets the job done. -- Photo by Diego Cupolo Come thrifty shoppers, young and old, Scour one man’s junk and find your gold!  As Summer turns to Spring, and the sun reaffirms its annual presence in our northeastern sky, who among us wouldn’t benefit from ...
    • The Basement Thrift Store: Cluelessly Cool
      The two best parts of thrift store shopping, in my opinion, are the deal and the hunt. There is a unique sense of pride you feel when you walk down the street in a pair of amazing shoes that cost you $3 and took you 45 minutes to find. That’s what I think is lacking in most Brooklyn ...
    • Bogart's Archive Now Hocks Porn
      Photo by Luis Velázquez The Archive, that most blasé of institutions when it comes to customer service, possibly battered on the coffee front by newcomer Cafe Orwell, has now resorted to renting pornography. Apparently their abysmally slow in-house wifi connection has convinced them it's not worth the time it takes to download or stream it, like most post-1998 Americans do.