A visit to East Village Buyers, now in soft-open mode in new Avenue A home

Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy

The team at East Village Buyers is settling into its new storefront at 39 Avenue A between Second Street and Third Street. 

Owner Gabriel Shaulov (below) said that the high-end consignment shop specializing in sneakers, jewelry and other collectibles is still officially in a soft-open mode (hence the paper on the front windows)...

Shaulov and his co-workers welcomed me into the space the other day to look around...

With the new space on the avenue, the shop has a much larger retail footprint than their previous home at 150 E. Third St. between Avenue A and Avenue B ...

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East Village Buyers moving from 3rd Street to Avenue A

Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy 

Thanks to a reader tip, we know the new tenant for the under-renovation retail space at 39 Avenue A. 

The East Village Buyers consignment shop will be moving from 150 E. Third St. between Avenue A and Avenue B to the previous Essex Card Shop storefront between Second Street and Third Street. 

Owner Gabriel Shaulov (second from left in the above photo) told me that he hopes to be in the new space in about a month and that he'd been waiting for more than two years to access the much-larger retail spot in the NYCHA-owned First Houses. 

The business model will be the same: a high-end consignment shop specializing in sneakers, jewelry and handbags, among other items.

Until 2020, No. 39 space was home to Essex Card Shop... which moved one block to the north.