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Brick and Mortar: Cool Stuff You Can't Get on the Internet

JULY 14, 2009

You can get pretty much anything on the 'net, but there are still a few worth-the-trip establishments that you'll only find if you do the legwork.

Hand-set 19th-century platen letter presses will imprint stationery and invitations for you on classic paper at Bowne & Co. Stationers in the South Street Seaport Museum. Obscura Antiques and Oddities on East 10th Street doesn't sell anything new, but they specialize in different. The jewel-box-sized cabinet of curiosities stocks taxidermied pets, faded postcards from the past, Victorian mourning jewelry and anatomical models.

The Jack's 99 Cent Store mini-empire attempts to meet all of your retail needs—from food to cosmetics to cleaning supplies—with items for a buck or less from their need-to-see-it-to-believe-it megastores. Tokyo-based fashion mecca Uniqlo may be an international chain, but there's only one in the whole U.S. of A, and New York City has it. To hoard their perfect skinny jeans, designer-collab dresses and hip Japanese graphic tees, you'll have to actually brave the Broadway masses.

If there's anything that doesn't translate well into ones and zeros it's ice cream. While city treasures like Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory, Fortunato Brothers and Eggers Ice Cream Parlor serving gelati and other frozen treats to long lines every day may be a heartwarming picture, it's one with no place for a virtual shopping cart.

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