Manhattan Art & Antiques Center

When you are here with your Queens car rental, you will find the Manhattan Art and Antique Center will offer you a an experience in antiquing right here in the city. They have over 100 galleries that offer antiques, period furniture, jewellery, silver, paintings, and objects of art from America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Sorting through everything

When you visit with your Queens rental car, you will find an assortment of collections from all over the world in all categories of antiques (furniture, silver, porcelain, paintings, tapestries, rugs, and jewellery). The Manhattan Art and Antiques Center has been at this located for the last two decades, and is proud to offer quality items and great service. Dealers, interior designers, and the general public are all welcome here to browse around and shop. Maybe you will find a souvenir to take home with you in you car rental Queens!

Need something fixed?

When you are here with your rental car Queens, you can also find expert repairs for a variety of items. Clocks, watches, silver, tapestries, rugs, quilts, jewellery, and more can be appraised and fixed on site. If they can’t fix it while you are here, it can be packed and shipped home to you as well.

Plan your visit

When you are here with your Queens car rental, you will find the Manhattan Art and Antiques Center is open daily to the public from 10:30 a.m. until 6 p.m., and on Sundays from noon until 6 p.m. Each of the individual galleries might have their own times that they are open, so you might want to check on line. The Manhattan Art and Antiques Center is located at 1050 Second Avenue at 56th Street in New York City. There is parking nearby.

Looking for more?

When you are here with your Queens car rental, you can find more antiques at the Hell’s Kitchen Flea Market. This can be found at West 39th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues, and is open from 9-6 on Saturday and Sunday. You will also find vendors from The Annex, which was located in Chelsea. Hell’s Kitchen is a great part of New York, despite its name. It was at one time part of New York’s underworld, with the Irish mob being prominent here. Today, it is a diverse neighbourhood that is sometimes thought of as an “actor’s” neighborhood with many famous residents. At the Hell’s Kitchen Flea Market, you will also find The Garage, which is an antiques market where shoppers can come on Saturday and Sunday between 9 and 5 to visit hundreds of vendors over two floors of paintings, prints, and vintage items. At West 25th Street between Broadway and 6th Avenue, you will find another 125 vendors selling antiques, collectibles, and other types of items.

Looking for something special

When you are here looking for something special, you will want to learn a little bit about antiquing and what you are looking for. Identifying, negotiating, and bargaining is all part of the fun when you are looking at antiques. Of course, you are looking for items that are old, rare, and in good condition. One thing you might want to do is to check if the dealer belongs to a trade association to ensure they have high quality items, and you are not just paying for a fake.

When you are here with your Queens rental car, you will find the Manhattan Art and Antiques Center is a great place to start your antiquing trip in New York, although there are many other locations you can visit as well in the city.

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