Monthly Archives: December 2019

Mahir Floral & Design Shop

Mahir Floral & Event Designs 156 West 28th Street New York, NY 10001

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In honor of Small Business Saturday I am sending out merchants I have found on MywalkinManhattan.com.  Event Designs has the most beautiful floral creations and a perfect place to find gifts for the home.

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Just stop in.

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Mahir Floral & Event Designs

156 West 28th Street

New York, NY  10001

Phone: (212) 686-1999

http://www.mahirfloralevents.com

Open: Monday-Saturday-7:00am-6:00pm/Sunday: 8:00am-4:00pm

I was passing this unique little flower shop in the middle of the ‘Flower District’ in New York City right near the Fashion Institute of Technology campus. What attracted me to the shop was the beautiful and colorful displays of plants and potted bushes on the store’s sidewalk  and stylish bouquets of flowers they had for sale outside the front door. That lead me to want to walk in and see what the store was all about.

Mahir Floral & Event Design is more than just commercial and event planning although they do both. Their retail aspect of the store is quite unique in the display merchandise they carry, all the stones, shells, glassware and pottery that they use for display and for holding the flowers. It is not the…

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Icon Style by Lara Kornbluh 104 West 70th Street New York, NY 10023

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In honor of Small Business Saturday, I am sending out merchants I have found on MywalkinManhattan. Don’t miss the unique jewels you will see in the display cases.

Icon Style by Lara Kornbluh II

Icon is an amazing store! Lara runs a great store.

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Owner Lara Kornbluh

The front window display

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Icon Style by Lara Kornbluh

104 West 70th Street

New York, NY  10023

(212) 799-0029

lara@iconstyle.net

http://www.iconstyle.net

Open: Wednesday-Friday-11:00am-8:00pm/Saturday-11:00am-7:00pm/Closed Monday & Tuesday

I came across this unique jewelry shop when walking the lower section of the Upper West Side for my blog, ‘MywalkinManhattan.com’. This interesting store is on a beautiful tree-lined street studded with brownstones and right near the Broadway shopping district and was founded in 1997.

The store was once upon a time a pharmacy that must date back to the last 1880’s as all the original woodwork and shelving were still intact and incorporated into the design of the store. It is now being used as the display cases for the all beautiful and interesting fine, vintage and costume jewelry that span the decades.

What attracted me to the store was the welcoming entrance and the fact that when you walk into the store, you are greeted not…

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More and More Antiques 378 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10024

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In honor of Small Business Saturday, I am sending out merchants I have found on MywalkinManhattan. I really suggest you all check out More & More’s Windows at the holidays. They are amazing!

More & More Antiques at 378 Amsterdam Avenue

The window display at More & More Antiques

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More and More Antiques

378 Amsterdam Avenue

New York, NY  10024

(212) 580-8404

http://www.moreandmoreantiquesnyc.com

Open: Monday-Friday-12:30pm-7:30pm/Saturday 12:00pm-6:00pm/Sunday-11:00am-6:00pm

I have visiting More & More Antiques at 378 Amsterdam Avenue when I was walking the neighborhood for my walking project, “MywalkinManhattan”. The one thing about More & More Antiques is the window displays. They really stand out.

When I first passed the store in early October, the windows had Halloween Ornaments hanging down from the ceiling with small figurines on all the side boards and the whole store glittered in black and orange. All over the store there were items for parties and decorations for the home and the perfect host gifts when arriving at someone’s home.

The store is currently decorated for the holidays and Christmas is in the air. In the windows now are all sorts of Christmas decorations and ornaments that show the creative side of decorating a tree…

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Stationary & Toy Store

Stationary and Toy World 125 West 72nd Street New York, NY 10023

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In honor of Small Business Saturday, I am sending out merchants that I have found on MywalkinManhattan.

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Stationary & Toy World

125 West 72nd Street

New York, NY  10023

(212) 580-3922

http://stationeryandtoy.com/shop/

Open: Monday-Saturday 9:00am-7:00pm/Sunday 10:00am-5:00pm

I came across Stationary & Toy World when I was walking the Upper West Side for my walking project, ‘MywalkinManhattan’ and was taken in by their store window displays with vintage toys. I came to find out they were not very vintage with seeing them and other toys I grew up with in the 70’s and 80’s lining the shelves. It figured when I found out that the store was established in 1988.

What I loved about the store is the variety of items you can find on the shelves. Once section is dedicated to toys and the selection was extensive. The aisle was lined with board games, puzzles, craft toys, painting sets, dress up and coloring books. Another aisle has painting and art supplies for that budding artist within all…

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Azalea & Oak

Azalea & Oak 5 Tudor City Place New York, NY 10017 (Closed December 2023)

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In Honor of Small Business Saturday, I am sending out some of the wonderful merchants I have found on MywalkinManhattan.

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The merchandise here is very unique.

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The store is the perfect combination of beautiful and unique merchandise in a creative setting.

*This great little store has now closed this location in December 2023.

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Azalea & Oak

5 Tudor City

New York, NY  10017

(212) 922-0700

http://www.azaleaandoak.com

@azaleaoak

https://www.azaleaandoak.com/

I came across Azalea & Oak when I was walking around Tudor City in the Turtle Bay neighborhood in New York. This unique and quirky store specializing in Women’s Accessories, jewelry and children’s clothing, gifts and stuffed toys was beautifully displayed and wonderful stocked with all sorts of handmade items. It is somewhat hidden in the Tudor City complex. I love their displays as well.

I was talking with one of the salespeople and she was telling me that the store had just been renovated from a flower shop into this new concept of a gift store. The owner is a former buyer for Saks Fifth Avenue and it shows in the selection of merchandise. Everything here is high quality.

The owner herself was the designer of the most of the jewelry in the shop…

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Gabrielle Carlson Studio

Gabrielle Carlson Studio 501 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10017

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In honor of Small Business Saturday, I am sending out some of the merchants I found on MywalkinManhattan.

Gabrielle Carlson Studio

Gabrielle Carlson Studio

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Gabrielle Carlson Studio

501 Lexington Avenue

New York, NY  10017

(917) 514-4433

GabrielleCarlson.com

http://www.gabriellecarlson.com/

When I was exploring the Turtle Bay neighborhood for my blog, “MywalkinManhattan.com” when rounding the corner by the Roger Smith Hotel  I was greeted by the beautiful vibrant colors of clothes in the window of Gabrielle Carlson Studio, which at the time was on East 47th Street and has now moved to 501 Lexington Avenue in the Roger Smith Hotel’s shops facing Lexington Avenue.

What attracted me to the store was the vibrant colors of the clothing and uniqueness of the styles and designs. Clothes were hanging from the racks in vibrant deep greens and purples and various hues of blue. There were different types of clothes to choose from including dresses, skirts, tank tops, tee-shirts, scarfs and sheen coverings in various colors and sizes. The store’s motto is “Beautiful Clothes in Your Size” and it…

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Royal Athena Antiques

Royal-Athena Galleries 153 East 57th Street New York, NY 10022 (Closed January 2022)

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In honor of Small Business Saturday, I am sending out some of the merchants I have found in MywalkinManhattan.

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Royal-Athetha Galleries closed in January of 2022 when the owner retired, and he closed the business. Please check their website for current products.

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Royal-Athena Galleries

153 East 57th Street

New York, NY  10022

(212) 355-2034

Fax: (212) 688-0412

ancientart@aol.com

http://www.royalathena.com

http://www.royalathena.com/

Open: Monday-Friday 10:00am-6:00pm/Saturday & Sunday Closed

I visited the Royal-Athena Galleries when I was touring the Turtle Bay neighborhood recently and it is an interesting mix of gallery and museum. The ancient art pieces are items that you would see in major collections and in the halls of well-known museums. Inside each of the cases and art that lined the tables were from Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Italy.

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Museum quality art work lines the cases and tables of the store

There was everything from large statues to small items like idols, coins, figure heads, bowls and vases. Each case told a story of a collection and each piece was marked with what the piece was, where it was from, sometimes a previous owner and the price. It was like going to the…

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Skylands Manor

Skylands Manor-New Jersey Botanical Garden 5 Morris Road Ringwood, NJ 07456

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Don’t miss the Skylands Manor during the first week of December. See my write up in my Christmas Again blogs.

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The home is beautiful at the holidays.

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Skylands Manor-New Jersey Botanical Garden

5 Morris Road

Ringwood, NJ  07456

(973) 962-9370

http://www.ringwoodmanor.org/Victorian-Christmas.html

The Skylands Manor is decorated for the holidays during the first week of December and only for one weekend as it used for a banquet facility the rest of the time and as a hotel. The first weekend of December is when local Gardening groups are assigned one room to decorate and they have one week to put it together, display their ideas and explain how they did it to the public. The best day to go is the Thursday afternoon opening as it is the quietest day of the four day event with Saturday being the busiest.

In 2018:

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Each of the eleven rooms that were decorated for the event were amazing each with their own decor, docents and gardeners and theme to the room. The Entrance Hall was elegant with its garland and potted…

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Cute Downtown

LittleShoponMainStreet@WordPress.com honors the history of Small Business Saturday November 30th, 2019

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Don’t miss supporting businesses in your local communities during the holiday season in 2019.

Park Bake Shop

Park Bake Shop in Kings Park, NY

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On November 30th, 2019, small businesses all over Main Streets and Downtown’s all over the country celebrated the Ninth Anniversary of “Small Business Saturday”, a shopping day dedicated to individual and small business owners.

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Harbs on the Upper East Side of Manhattan

My blog. LittleShoponMainStreet@Wordpress.com honors those business owners first in New York City and now all over the Eastern Seaboard whose business owners offering interesting one of kind merchandise, unique merchandising design and placement of their goods and interesting window displays that showcase their stores.

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Amado on Third on the Upper East Side of Manhattan at Halloween

Each store featured in this blog showcases the store’s individuality of the owner and the excellent customer service you will receive when you walk in. The in-personality of the big department stores demoans their failure but I think it is just corporate America answering what they think customers want. I think interesting…

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