Owners Henry Zook and Mary Gannett opened their Cobble Hill bookshop in 1981 and ever since, it has been a family-friendly place to scoop up titles by local authors, both fiction and nonfiction. A separate children's room has a great [more...]

This Boerum Hill knitting shop is a favorite of Brooklynites, who head there for an enormous selection of yarn, in acrylic, cashmere, cotton, novelty and wool blends, needles, books, bags, and patterns.

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Located in Fort Greene and stocked with an enormous selection of yarn, needles, and anything else you could possibly want related to the hobby. If they don't have it, the store is more than happy to order it for you. Both beginners and [more...]

208 Smith St near Baltic; 718-797-1348; F, G to Bergen St.

The coolest comic book shop ever. Almost entirely a book store, with a small art gallery up front where you can purchase cartoonists' original work for around $300.