Top B&M Shops in New York?

[pcfdave]

Let me know. Any help is great. Thanks! Making a trip in October and taking any suggestions.

 

[daveinlax]

Are you talking the NYC metro area?

 

[pcfdave]

I’m going all around the state. Hardly in NYC

 

[cohibajoe]

I am in NJ....Manhattan is not a place to be at this time...it's filthy, lot's of graffiti and the homeless is out of control. Be very careful and stay alert.

 

[pcfdave]

Thanks for the heads up

 

[fireground_piper]

Cupojoes physical location is in Queensbury. Queensbury Cigar & Pipe | Home of the Great... - https://queensburycigarandpipe.com/

 

[ofafeather]

If you’re in the Capital District Edleez in Albany and Park Lane in Clifton Park.

 

[Western Isles]

I trained into Manhattan in June and would agree with the advice to use caution. I visited the Barclay-Rex shop, and found the young employee behind the counter to be knowledgeable and the estate pipes to be higher quality than the norm. All the other patrons were there to smoke cigars. I went away happy with a small supply of tobacco, including their house English, 'Vincent's', and popped in at a pub on my way back to the station.

 

[Western Isles]

I suppose I should mention the tobaccos that Barclay-Rex had displayed on the shelves in quantity. Rattray's Red Rapparee showed good taste, but is not hard to find elsewhere. They did, however, also have numerous tins of Dorchester and Balkan Sobranie, which are a little more elusive.

 

[lukasstrifeson]

I am in NJ....Manhattan is not a place to be at this time...it's filthy, lot's of graffiti and the homeless is out of control. Be very careful and stay alert.

Was there a time when this wasn't true?

 

[jonasclark]

Graffiti and homeless is every big city, and if you walk like you have somewhere to be, you tend to get by fine. I live in Seattle, which gets loads of claims of out-of-control and dangerous homeless; I walk a lot, including wearing a suit, including late at night, including through infamous areas like near the so-called CrackDonald's, and I get by fine simply by way of walking with purpose (and I've never had homeless do any more than yell something at a distance).

 

[ssjones]

If you’re in the Capital District Edleez in Albany and Park Lane in Clifton Park.

+1 on Edleez, just off the NY Thruway. Cup O Joes is a fit father North (30 mins?)
Parklane is definitely worth a stop.

 

[ssjones]

Was there a time when this wasn't true?

Yep, until Covid. Manhattan as like walking around Disneyland.

 

[sumusfumus]

I’m going all around the state. Hardly in NYC

Just some friendly advice......AVOID MANHATTAN! It's literally, a filthy shit-hole! I "live" in New York City.... which is a hellish curse that I will have to suffer. However, it's my duty, a civil act of brotherly charity, my fraternal obligation, to forewarn you. Trust me....NYC sucks! Shop, and visit, elsewhere. Manhattan is not anywhere you wanna be at.

BTW, any decent, old-school, B&M Pipe and Tobacco shops.... have disappeared from NYC, decades ago....but, the overpriced, tourist traps, stayed.

 

[Pipeoff]

The best shop in w. NY is smokers Haven near Buffalo. See pipedia under nameKalnitz.

 

[fireground_piper]

Has it really changed that much as of March 2020? I was going in 2-3 days a month for work up until shutdown and it seemed the same as when I was there every day 10 years before that.

Has it really turned noticeably different or is this just a weird NYC bashing?

 

[anotherbob]

Graffiti and homeless is every big city, and if you walk like you have somewhere to be, you tend to get by fine. I live in Seattle, which gets loads of claims of out-of-control and dangerous homeless; I walk a lot, including wearing a suit, including late at night, including through infamous areas like near the so-called CrackDonald's, and I get by fine simply by way of walking with purpose (and I've never had homeless do any more than yell something at a distance).

you run into problems when you give off the lost I don't belong here vibe. That's mostly true any where too by the way.

 

[pcfdave]

I'm from the Portland, OR area and I've never minded the weird vibe it touted to have. Born and raised here I'm saddened by the now overrun and trashed vibe it has definitely become in various parts of town.

 

[cohibajoe]

Has it really changed that much as of March 2020? I was going in 2-3 days a month for work up until shutdown and it seemed the same as when I was there every day 10 years before that.

Has it really turned noticeably different or is this just a weird NYC bashing?

I commuted from 85-98...I am 1hr away from Manhattan. Last visit was March 2021...Welcome to the 80's. Penn Station looks like Port Authority, homeless, lot's of graffiti, Bellevue in the streets and empty business is something I had never seen(Covid related)...In the 70's (late 70's for me)..to much to say so not going there. All I say to anyone going to Manhattan...Be alert and watch were your step.

 

[fireground_piper]

Penn has been a homeless focal point since I started regularly passing through there in 2001. Particularly in the hottest summer months and coldest winter months for obvious HVAC amenities. The graffiti would be new though.