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New York’s OddStops hide creative institutions inside playful storefronts and place working craft beside ambitious destination design. Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. presents capes, secret identities, and impossible hero equipment while supporting a youth writing center behind the shop. In Manhattan, Bowne & Co., Stationers sells printed goods from a museum-operated letterpress workshop using historic tools. Upstate, MacKenzie-Childs Aurora turns a Finger Lakes design campus into a mix of outlet shopping, decorated interiors, gardens, and farmhouse experiences. These profiles provide three creative entry points before the complete New York list below.

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Brooklyn, NY
Art of Play at 69 Atlantic
A Brooklyn shop devoted to beautifully made games, puzzles, playing cards, optical curiosities and playful design, with a hidden 26-seat theater presenting ticketed magic for adults behind the retail space.
Art of Play at 69 Atlantic combines a design-minded game and curiosity store with an intimate concealed theater whose scheduled shows remain separate from ordinary shopping.
Home goods & furnitureBooks, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
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New York, NY
Bowne & Co., Stationers
A working South Street Seaport Museum shop where contemporary stationery, books and paper goods sit beside letterpress printing, historic equipment and demonstrations rooted in New York's long printing trade.
Bowne & Co., Stationers is a museum-operated retail shop and working letterpress destination where visitors can buy paper goods while seeing printing history practiced next door.
Home goods & furnitureBooks, records & mediaArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsServices & repairsOther
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Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co.
A Park Slope novelty shop selling capes, masks, secret-identity gear and deliberately fictional superhero supplies, with a hidden door that opens into 826NYC's nonprofit youth writing center.
Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. is both a playful superhero store and the public front for a nonprofit writing center reached through a concealed passage.
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New York, NY
Halloween Adventure / New York Costumes
A year-round East Village costume superstore, established in the mid-1980s, where two levels of masks, wigs, makeup, props, animatronics, apparel, theatrical supplies, and skull chandeliers fill a sprawling permanent shop.
Halloween Adventure, also branded New York Costumes, is a sprawling year-round Halloween and theatrical retail environment with deep costume stock, horror décor, professional makeup, props, accessories, and changing themed events.
Apparel & footwearHome goods & furnitureToys, games & hobbiesArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsHealth & personal careOther
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Aurora, NY
MacKenzie-Childs Aurora
A Finger Lakes design destination where the company's colorful pottery and home furnishings share a large farm setting with an outlet, vintage pieces, a year-round Christmas shop, a fanciful visitor pavilion and reserved tours through a decorated late-1800s farmhouse.
MacKenzie-Childs Aurora turns a working design and pottery campus into a multi-part retail destination with studio shopping, outlet finds, gardens and a tourable showpiece farmhouse.
Home goods & furnitureAntiques & vintageArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsOther
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Rush, NY
Makintraxx RC
Makintraxx RC turns an indoor dirt track organized around club racing into a visitable hobby destination.
Makintraxx RC combines radio-control culture, technical track design, and organized racing in Rush, NY.
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Mount Tremper, NY
The Shops at Emerson
A Catskills barn-like shopping destination where regional food, apparel, gifts, toys, books, home goods, art, bath products and fishing supplies share one connected complex with the World's Largest Kaleidoscope in a converted silo.
The Shops at Emerson combine a broad cluster of specialty departments with a separate admission-based kaleidoscope show housed in a towering former silo.
Grocery & pantryOutdoor, hunting & fishingApparel & footwearHome goods & furnitureBooks, records & mediaToys, games & hobbiesArt, crafts & handmadeGifts, novelty & souvenirsHealth & personal careOther
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