(1) NEWS: After spending about two months, this Goodwill Store was completely remodeled, face-lifted, and fully reopened in November 2018. (During the remodeling operations, only the half of the store was open for us.) It looks so open, spacious, very well-lit, and without any ugly big slogans or sale pitches on the walls any more. They did a great jobs!
(2) OVERVIEW:
This Goodwill Store at the 259 Livingston St in Brooklyn, New York is a huge and clean store and donation center of the used items. It is conveniently located by the Hoyt - Schermerhorn St subway station (A, C, G lines) and two more subway stations. It is a very busy foot traffic area of Brooklyn. The donation drop-off entrance is on another side of the building. (You can donate your used under wears for your tax credit purpose for reducing your tax payment amount, just as Bill Clinton has been so famously doing, even during his US Presidency at teh White House, for many years. This is very well-known fact.)
The lunch time is sometimes very busy with a long line at the front cashiers here. They also take major credit cards even for a small shopping. :-) The staffs I met here were all very helpful and nice.
(3). MERCHANDISES:
This Goodwill Store is quite huge and sells the most of items found at any thrift stores, second hand stores, vintage stores, and flea markets. (Although their book section and the electric product section is really crappy. LOL) Nevertheless, their specialty is the second hand cloths. Surprisingly most of their quality is fair, pretty good, and even very good.
(4). MY SHOPPING LIST:
(4-1) Men's Vintage Business Suit's Vests (5 BUTTONS)
The long and miserable Economic Recession (Bush-Clinton-Obama Recession Era) finally ended, thanks to President Donald Trump. The more people (including the Afro-Americans, women, Mexicans, legal immigrants, lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders) now have wage-earning jobs for the first time since 1987, thanks to our new US President Donald Trump. Nevertheless, during that dark economic era, the formal men's fashion industry was crippled. Almost all of men's business suits company stopped manufacturing the three pieces suits. They killed the matching vest for the business suits for saving their production costs! What a tragedy! I love the formal and classic look of those business vests. I also love the practicality of wearing them in cold months. In my opinion, the real men's business suits can NOT be completed without a good matching business vest (and a good matching Fedora hat). (See my attached photos below.)
(4-2) Men's Formal Business Suits with the style ON or BEFORE 1989. My favorite men's formal MATCHING THREE PIECE business suits is 1940s - 1960s style. (THESE HAVE 3 BUTTONS)
Due to the long nasty Economic Recession, the most of the manufacturers started making the men's business suits with less fabric: skinny lapels, short-length jacket, and the idiotic sales gimmick of "Slim-fit" with the extremely small waist size jackets (despite the fact Americans are getting fatter and obese every year with increasing abdomen size!) for the exact same reasons I have stated above. I really hate this miserable, cheaply-made, and cheap-looking, Men's Recession Business Suits (Bush-Clinton-Obama Recession Suits) sold all over the city today with idiotic sales gimmicks. Shame on you! For me, this Goodwill store is one of the best places for getting the yesteryear's luxurious real men's business suits.
(4-3) Band name luxury men's business neckties.
I always carry around a sheet of paper with the list of names of the high end brand name necktie companies. It is extremely rare but I had a fortune of purchasing a few excellent mint condition beautiful business neckties for less than $5 each; Originally, each of these sells for over $120 at the major department stores nearby.
(4-4) Drinking glasses
You can never have enough of them. Recently, I have been collecting small size drinking glasses (many are from Frence and Russia). I use them at the Pay-Per-Pound Buffet Restaurants and small restaurants. (Needless to say, I also bring and use my own fancy silverware when I dine out.)
NOTE: I like this Goodwill store a lot but they do not offer certain items in my shopping list, sadly. I wish they had sets of vintage-looking (classic-looking) dishes and 19th century decorative silverware. (For these, MyUnique thrift store in Queens is excellent.)
If you are into the treasure hunting and visiting the flea markets, then this Goodwill store is one of the best thrift shops in downtown Brooklyn, New York, in my opinion.
NOTE: TIP: Make sure to get the "Reward Card" at the register (free) for earning the shopping point at each time you shop here.
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