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On a recent visit, they even found a wooden chair with two cartoonish dog heads on each armrest ($800). Anna Brettschneider and Garrett Albury, editors of the coolstuff.nyc newsletter, first discovered the shop when they spotted a “giant, human-size crayon” in the window in the perfect shade of blue ($1,800 for a set of five). While this Bushwick showroom specializes in Danish mid-century pieces, owner Gijs Van Der Most isn’t obsessive about keeping the inventory uniform.

Van der Most Modern, 159 Troutman St., Bushwick Brand consultant Isabel McWhorter-Rosen is another regular, and calls the experience “an adult IRL version of an eye-spy book.” And there’s still a “rather legit assortment of hooks, lures, and custom bait bags in the back,” according to communications strategist Charlotte Morse - but she stops by for “lucite dressers and massive arched lamps.” “It’s very narrow and has so much stacked on top of each other that you have to stare for a few minutes to decipher what you’re seeing,” says Passerby magazine founder Clémence Polès, who found her prized Marcel Breuer Cesca chairs there “for $80,” as well as a “weird sculpture that looks like Noguchi might have made it” for $60. And while the original awning remains the same, over the past three decades Piskorsa’s daughter Barbara has transformed the inside into an overflowing (some admirers say “overwhelming”) supply of Art Deco and postmodern furniture - along with plenty of records, vintage posters, and chandeliers, too. Dream Fishing Tackle, 673 Manhattan Ave., Greenpoint /dreamfishingtackleĪs the name suggests, Dream Fishing Tackle was a place for anglers to buy new rods and bait when Robert Piskorsa opened the Greenpoint shop in 1994.