Shop Brooklyn: 10 Quintessentially Brooklyn Stores
Bird
Granted, there are many, many places in Brooklyn to buy beautiful clothes these days. But this is due in no small part to the influence of Jennifer Mankins and the small empire she’s created with Bird, which now has three locations throughout the borough and created the mold after which countless small boutiques have modeled themselves. And rightly so. With an eclectic, always-shifting collection (and what my friends with glasses tell me is an excellent selection of frames), this is one of the rare places that truly lives up to the idea of “something for everyone.”
203 Grand St., Williamsburg
316 Fifth Avenue, Park Slope
220 Smith St., Cobble Hill