Peruse huge art books, zines, and small-press pubs well into the night.
Photo: Courtesy of St. Mark’s Bookshop
Downtown community center books bands, lectures, forums, film screenings, and more with an indie bent (it’s for the kids!) on the cheap.
After your visit to the contemporary museum, stop in the ground-floor shop for items that range from academic (architecture and art books) to quirky (journals made from vinyl records, David Shrigley postcards, graphic tees). For serious design aficionados, special-edition prints and books.
Goods that reflect what’s going on in the museum (except you might actually be able to afford something here). Look for pleasing kitchen and tableware, jewelry by design firms, cool art books, and a selection of Muji accessories. Sometimes the gift shop is more fun than the museum itself. (Maybe why that’s why there’s a second location in Soho.)
Bright, airy, and obsessively neat curation of titles that feels like a private library, with authors dropping in weekly to host.
Photo: Courtesy of 192 Books
The 2,000-square-foot space has everything literati (and wannabes) could want, including a huge kids’ section, French and Spanish editions, graphic novels galore, and tons of NY-centric titles.
An outdoor market with the right mix of old-school vendors and new-school crafters, not to mention a great lineup of special food artisans from the Brooklyn locavore scene. Start your weekend strolling here.
Photo: Jonathan Butler / Courtesy of Brooklyn Flea
How do the Japanese make it look so easy? Pick up a few pop-culture zines, toys, and tricks to figure it out.