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The Lower East Side & Chinatown (4 Hour Experience):
- Lower East Side
More than extra suitcases, apparel and home furnishings can be found in the shops along the streets in the Lower East Side. The neighborhood is changing weekly. See trendy new boutiques featuring young new designers, new restaurants and galleries. Visit the best of the best with your shopping expert. Through you consultation with one of our Destination Specialists, this day is custom designed to meet your needs and expectations.
- Chinatown
Where can you purchase a Louis Vuitton, Fendi, Christian Dior or Gucci look a likes for less than thirty dollars? Discover the streets of Chinatown. Shop for purses, watches and scarves as you learn how to barter for the best price.
Include a Customized Shopping Experience (6 Hour Experience - Above experience plus):
- Enjoy a dim sum lunch chosen during your consultation with one of our Destination Specialists
- Customized Shopping Experience
Then, it’s off with your expert who will continue to experience the best of the neighborhood based upon your taste preferences.
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Lord of the Fleas and Warehouse Tours (4 Hour Experience):
- Flea Markets
New York has several wonderful locations housing art and bargain priced antiques. We choose one of the best shops for antique aficionados! In a city where artifacts come from around the globe, flea markets hold treasures galore. These bargain priced venues are a must for people with a budget in mind.
- Chelsea Antiques Warehouse
Next, we visit the Antiques Center. This warehouse is full of everything from costume jewelry to scenic backdrops. Wander through the treasures of days gone by. (closed Mondays)
Include Custom Exploration (6 Hour Experience - Above experience plus):
- Optional lunch at a neighborhood restaurant chosen during your consultation with one of our Destination Specialists
- Customized Exploration
Next, we continue our exploration based upon those items that you personally want to see.
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Shopping Along Ladies' Mile and Chinatown (4 Hour Experience):
- Boutique Shopping for the Home
New York has several wonderful locations for the best shopping for home fashions. Explore several of them in the morning where the merchandise is constantly changing for fun and exciting selections.
Include Lunch and Chinatown Bargains (6 Hour Experience - Above experience plus):
- Optional lunch at a neighborhood restaurant chosen during your consultation with one of our Destination Specialists
- Chinatown Bargains
Everyone wants a bargain; and Chinatown has something for everyone. Clothes, handbags, toys, watches all share space on the street for you.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (4 Hour Experience):
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
What are the different kinds of silver that are available and where are they made? Learn how to tell if a piece of silver is antique. Identify items used over the centuries by the well born for their elaborate, multi-course dinners. We'll begin with a private tour of the silver collection at the “Metropolitan Museum of Art's Silver Collection” followed by a visit to the museum's gift shop. (Closed Mondays). Then, we’ll visit a shop in the neighborhood and see the pieces available for sale and learn why the shops offer these selections!
Include Personal Shopping for Silver (6 Hour Experience - Above experience plus):
- Optional lunch at a neighborhood restaurant chosen during your consultation with one of our Destination Specialists
- Shopping for Silver
Visit several of the best silver shops, speak with the shopkeepers and learn about their collections. Hear about the differences between sterling silver and silver plate, and learn to tell if a piece of silver is English, Continental or American. Whether it's a strawberry fork, or a bone marrow spoon, unusual items that you may have found in your grandmother's closest can now be cherished. You may even want to bring a small family item with you for identification by one of the experts.
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Shop for the Best Kitchen and Tableware in New York (4 Hour Experience):
- Kitchen Suppliers
We begin in midtown at New York's most famous supplier to both restaurants and home chefs. See what's new in the marketplace as you shop around this innovative store.
- China, Coffee and Tea
By reproducing famous china patterns from private clubs, railroads, and hotels, this is New Yorker's favorite stop. Prices are low and they'll ship! Travel across the street to the "Disneyland" of home furnishings where you can collect, rather than decorate! Peruse the store to find the latest designs. We'll stop for coffee and tea here.
Include Dean and Deluca (6 Hour Experience - Above experience plus):
- Optional lunch at a neighborhood restaurant chosen during your consultation with one of our Destination Specialists
- Dean and Deluca
New York's flagship store for food and tabletop is our next stop. You'll be able to pick up those hard to find ingredients while savoring a peek at cookies that cost $14 a piece!
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4 Hour Experience:
- Salvage Companies
Where do the bits and pieces of New York's buildings go when they are torn down? “One Man's Junk is Another Man's Treasure” search takes you into the salvage companies. You also discover where the gargoyles go. New Yorkers have a rich urban history that is captured by architectural fragments, furniture, and sometimes junk.
- Shopping
Explore landmark neighborhoods, lined with fanciful cast iron facades. Find inspiration while shopping alongside interior designers, trendsetters, and film producers.
6 Hour Experience - Above experience plus:
- Optional lunch at a neighborhood restaurant chosen during your consultation with one of our Destination Specialists
- Museum Exhibit
Why is New York considered the center of the art world? Which great works exist in New York today? Look closely as you visit the most significant related exhibition making its way through New York. Whether it be at the Museum of Modern Art or Morgan Library see first hand why the exhibition is so riveting.
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4 Hour Experience:
- Garment District Shopping Experience
Exclusively for Women's apparel and Accessories. The Garment Center is open Monday - Friday
- Guests enjoy a special insiders shopping tour in the Garment Center of New York City.
- Access wholesale showrooms that are not open to the public and sample sales for fashion apparel and accessories. Showrooms are selected to fit the group’s demographics, including sizing and what items they are interested in purchasing. Showrooms and sample sales generally have traditional sizes 2 -12. (Plus sizes or extra small sizes cannot be guaranteed.). These are samples, not a complete selection that would be available in major stores. If a designer is in his/her showroom, we make arrangements for a quick meet and greet, but cannot guarantee their availability.
6 Hour Experience - Above experience plus:
- Optional lunch at a neighborhood restaurant chosen during your consultation with one of our Destination Specialists
- More Garment District Shopping
After lunch, your shopping expert helps you finish the day collecting the last minute items on your gift list!
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