Beacon's Closet
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Phone: (718) 486-0816
- Cross Street:
- Between Berry Street and Wythe Avenue
- Directions:
- L at Bedford Ave
- Best of Citysearch:
- Vintage/Thrift Shop 2007, Vintage/Thrift Shop 2006
- Hours:
- Mon-Fri 12pm-9pm, Sat-Sun 11am-8pm
Editorial Review for Beacon's Closet – by Citysearch Editors
In Short
Blaring indie rock on the speakers, cooler-than-thou employees and hordes of browsing hipsters; yes, you guessed it, you're in Williamsburg. The cavernous space
carries a wide range of gently worn men's and women's apparel, plus shoes and accessories. There's also an assortment of soaps and candles, as well as used CDs and records. Got something to sell? Beacon's Closet will buy your old clothes--offering 30 percent of the resale value in cash, or 55 percent in store credit.
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Insider Tips
When to GoBeacon's Closet can be busy on weekends, but low prices keep a steady stream of shoppers in the store even during weekdays.
The ExtrasCheck out the Park Slope location.
User Reviews for Beacon's Closet
03/29/2008 Posted by yeastypie101
Just to add a positive review in a sea of negatives I thought I'd give my two cents. Beacon's closet is one of my favorite stores in New York and I wish I could go more often. The clothes they have are some of the most unique I''ve seen and I feel that if I buy something there I won't see every other person wearing the same thing. Their clothes are organized by color and then by size, which I think makes things a bit easier depending on what you're looking for. You're pretty much guaranteed to find something awesome for a very reasonable price. But it's also true that they have expensive things as well. I've never really been treated badly by the employees. In fact a few have even been nice to me. However, most of them seem indifferent and aren't either really rude or friendly. If you're planning on shopping and not on selling then I recommend this store to you.
Pros: Awesome clothes
Cons: A bit cramped
02/03/2008 Posted by lindsa
The Beacon's Closet experience is a lot like entering one of those Jersey Shore traveling fairs. When you first show up all the lights and colors and music can be distracting and a little exciting. But about a half hour into your visit, you've spent all your money on cr@p, you feel a little sick and any remaining joy is destroyed by the faint smell of B.O. permeating the armpits of surrounding garments. My advice - you can find the same caliber of clothing on the sale r@ck at Forever 21 - only it's new - and costs about a tenth the price of it's doppelganger jammed onto an overcrowded r@ck at Beacon's Closet. Besides the fact that the service is lame, the clothing barely rivals the selection at your neighborhood Salvation Army (which happens to be my preferred venue) - Beacon's Closet also manages in its spare time to function as a microcosm of all that is wrong with Williamsburg. Scamming people for their old clothes then marking them up to sell to trust fund babies who are trying to pass is the antithesis of a "Thrift" store. Let's just call a spade a spade folks: If you want to visit a thrift store, look up the Salvation Army, if you want to simultaneously bl0w your trust fund while fooling all your friends that you're slummin - then go buy my target sweater from 2003 currently hanging on the red r@ck, with the tags ripped off, and pay twice as much for it as I did.
