[What You Should Buy At]... Time Galleries

Park Slope is pretty lousy when it comes to furniture shopping. Why?  I’m guessing it's a lack of spacious retail space, and also because a significant percentage of us are nomadic renters who don’t want to spend too much on giant, heavy items that might not fit into our next abode. 

Just check out how much IKEA shit is for sale on Craiglslist. 

However, if you ARE interested in more solid stuff and don’t mind previously-owned items, check out Time Galleries on 5^th Ave (near 15^th Street).  This is a store jammed to the rafters with used antique and higher end furniture including tables, dressers, chairs, chandeliers and desks. It’s literally aisle after aisle of aisles made of furniture.  And they have a basement, which is equally stuffed full of goodies.

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