Comments (0) Best Stationery Store - 2012
Brooklyn Art Library
It might just be the quintessential North Williamsburg institution. Half-store, half-library, it's an oasis for anyone sorely missing the bygone days when writing and design were done the hard way and getting ink on your hands was still a thing. Purveyor of wholly unnecessary but irresistibly romantic vintage stationery and drawing utensils, this shop keeps a rotating stock of artistic ephemera including old bowling-alley markers, National Rifle Association hunting and trapping manuals, lumber-company ledgers, and all manner of notebooks and journals . . . so take that, Internet! Let's give thanks to the Brooklyn Art Library. The place also houses the Sketchbook Project, a collection of thousands of hand-illustrated and -authored journals donated by people from all over the world. It's definitely a place to be inspired and maybe pick up a pack or two of crayons, just in case it has been a while. 103A North 3rd Street, Brooklyn, 718-388-7941, arthousecoop.com (11211)
