Though this bookstore's canvas totes have become nearly as ubiquitous as Uggs, the Strand is still the spot for those seeking an enormous selection of discounted used and new books as well as rare and collectible reads. A [more...]

100% of the profits from this lovely and altruistic bookstore and cafe go to Housing Works, a non-profit that provides services like job training, health care, and other services for homeless New Yorkers with HIV/AIDS. Rare books mingle [more...]

Bargains abound at this Park Slope shop–an offshoot of Brooklyn Heights' Heights Books–where still-in-print-books sell for half the retail price. The owners scour estate, garage and yard sales for rare and out-of-print books and [more...]

If you like the weird and wonderful, check out Jen's Troll Museum in the LES. She's got hundreds, in all sorts of costumes and get ups. Weird, wacky but inimitably cool.

Lower East Side Troll Museum (122 Orchard Street, 560-7235; [more...]