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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 18 arts, crafts and hobby shops
Best arts, crafts and hobby shops in Brooklyn
The 10 most notable arts, crafts and hobby shops in Brooklyn, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
New York Roadshow
65 Pondfield Rd
137 m from Bronxville, rail
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 3.072, percentile 100 of 18
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2
Tuckahoe Framing Gallery
114 Main St
323 m from Tuckahoe, rail
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.922, percentile 94.12 of 18
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3
Framebridge
85 Pondfield Rd, Suite 103
213 m from Bronxville, rail
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.735, percentile 88.24 of 18
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4
The Hobby Store
114 Mt Vernon Ave
222 m from Mount Vernon West, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 2.644, percentile 82.35 of 18
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5
Bargello Needlepoint
24 Columbus Ave
153 m from Tuckahoe, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 2.644, percentile 76.47 of 18
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6
Zina Studios, Inc.
45 S 3rd Ave
348 m from Mount Vernon East station, rail
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 2.644, percentile 70.59 of 18
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7
Westchester Fabrics Co
103 S 4th Ave
486 m from Mount Vernon East station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 2.644, percentile 64.71 of 18
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8
a-QK Alphabet Stuff
76 Fisher Ave
334 m from Crestwood, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 2.644, percentile 58.82 of 18
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9
Madhatter Creations
14 Fisher Ave
70 m from Crestwood, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 2.644, percentile 52.94 of 18
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10
Columbus Framing Gallery Inc.
24 Columbus Ave
127 m from Tuckahoe, rail
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 2.644, percentile 47.06 of 18
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).