Corridor is the independent New York label Dan Snyder started in 2013 while sewing in the Garment District. It makes original textiles and clothing shaped by folk Americana, produced with family-run workshops, and covers shirts, knitwear, outerwear, footwear. Four shops trade in New York, including 245 Elizabeth Street in Nolita, with three more in Los Angeles. Design stays in Brooklyn, where the brand is based.
Best for Original textiles, shirts and knitwear designed in Brooklyn
Corridor began in 2013, when Dan Snyder was sewing in the Garment District and working out of a walk-up apartment in the East Village. The name comes from the Northeast Corridor bus line he rode at the time. The label describes itself as Brooklyn based and independent, drawing on folk Americana, and it makes original textiles rather than buying finished cloth. Production runs through family-run workshops in several countries, which the brand names as a deliberate choice rather than a sourcing note. The collection covers shirts, knitwear, outerwear, sweats, trousers, footwear. Accessories and a small homeware line sit alongside. Corridor also keeps a bookshelf section, which reads as an extension of the same interests in art and music. Seven shops are listed. Four sit in New York, at 245 Elizabeth Street in Nolita, 165 Dekalb Avenue in Fort Greene, 322 Bleecker Street in the West Village and 145 Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg. Three more are in Los Angeles, on North Larchmont Boulevard, California Avenue in Venice and Echo Park Avenue. Appointments can be booked at each address, and the brand still lists its design work as happening in Brooklyn.
American luxury designer — grunge meets glamour, the Snapshot bag, and a career that defined 1990s fashion. The most influential American designer of his generation.
Best for Snapshot bags and American grunge-glamour
Family-run sporting goods store founded 1908 by Philip Blank near Union Square at 867 Broadway; now run by the fourth generation, stocking gear across skiing, fishing, hunting, baseball, and more.
Best for NYC sporting goods institution
Paragon Sports was founded in 1908 by Philip Blank as a general sporting goods store in Manhattan; it remains at 867 Broadway, just north of Union Square. After World War II, Blank's three sons joined the business and expanded it into new categories based on their own interests, adding fishing, hunting, skiing, golf, baseball, and basketball departments over time. The store has stayed family-owned through four generations and is now run by Blank's descendants, having outlasted major department store closures and the growth of online sporting-goods retail. In 2026 it was voted the nation's top sporting goods retailer in the USA Today Sports Readers' Choice Awards.
New York leather-jacket maker founded in 1913 by brothers Irving and Jack Schott; Irving designed the belted, zip-front 'Perfecto' motorcycle jacket in 1928, and the company remains family-run today.
Best for The original 1913 Perfecto leather jacket, Brando-approved
Schott NYC (originally Schott Bros.) was founded in 1913 by Irving and Jack Schott, sons of a Russian immigrant, who opened a small cutting-and-sewing operation in the basement of a Lower East Side Manhattan tenement, initially making raincoats sold door-to-door by street peddlers. In 1928, Irving Schott designed what's widely credited as the first leather motorcycle jacket: a horsehide, double-breasted, belted design with a zippered front he named the 'Perfecto' after his favorite cigar brand. The asymmetric front zip created a windproof seal for riders and became the template still recognized today. The jacket's cultural profile grew through mid-century film, later cemented by Marlon Brando wearing one in 'The Wild One.' Schott is now in its third and fourth generation of family ownership, run by descendants including Jason Schott and David Colin. The company continues to manufacture in the United States and sells through schottnyc.com.
Four generations of one family slicing smoked salmon on Houston Street since 1914 — the appetizing store that defines the genre. Bagels, belly lox and babka; New York in a pink box.
Best for The appetizing store — smoked fish royalty since 1914
Four generations of one family slicing smoked salmon on Houston Street since 1914 — the appetizing store that defines the genre, and the rare New York institution whose name honors the daughters who ran the counter. Bagels, belly lox, babka: New York in a pink box, cut by hand by the family that's been cutting it for over a century.
A slice of Britain on Hudson Street, Myers of Keswick bakes third-generation pork pies, sausage rolls and Cornish pasties in the West Village. Its shelves and online store carry imported British teas, sweets, jams and household staples.
Best for British grocery, specialty food, pies, imports
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