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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 74 second-hand shops
Best second-hand shops in The Bronx
The 10 most notable second-hand shops in The Bronx, 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
Quirkshop
23 N Division St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.412, percentile 100 of 74
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2
The Provident Loan Society (fordham)
2573 Decatur Ave
156 m from Fordham station, rail
listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.405, percentile 98.63 of 74
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3
Lawrence J Zinzi Antiques Inc
2419 Eastchester Rd
listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.405, percentile 97.26 of 74
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4
Gotham Thrift Shop
61-01 Myrtle Ave
35 m from Myrtle Avenue station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.354, percentile 95.89 of 74
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5
Paradise Pawnbrokers
2400 Grand Concourse
280 m from Fordham Road station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.354, percentile 94.52 of 74
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6
Queens Pawnbrokers
9412 Roosevelt Ave
246 m from Junction Boulevard, metro
listed by Foursquare Open Source Places and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.354, percentile 93.15 of 74
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7
Papas Pawn Shop
1215 Stratford Ave
112 m from Morrison Avenue – Soundview, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.354, percentile 91.78 of 74
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8
Met Metals
119-06 28th Ave
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.354, percentile 90.41 of 74
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9
Ridgewood Antiques
66-33 Fresh Pond Rd
231 m from Fresh Pond Road, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.354, percentile 89.04 of 74
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10
Element 79 Llc
703 E 187th St
554 m from 183rd Street, metro
listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.344, percentile 87.67 of 74
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).