Yes, Free!! This November promo is an outstanding opportunity to give your teenager the time of her life. Choose from 2 daily tours. For more info: www.shopgotham.com. Booking code: freeteen.

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This is a First & ONCE -ONLY Shop Gotham deal. Coming to New York City in November with your teen daughter? Does she want to shop, shop and shop some more? Then you are in luck.

Right before the mad holiday season begins, we invite you to bring your TEEN DAUGHTER for FREE on a Shop Gotham shopping Tour. Shop the Indie boutiques of Soho/Nolita or Wholesale Showrooms and Sample Sales in the Garment District.   We know what’s what and where it is.  It’s hot, its special access, its an only in NYC experience.

Here is how it works:

One complimentary teen ticket for each paid adult ticket. We highly recommend reading up on what minimum age we suggest for each tour (we want both moms and their girls to be happy!) Tours max at 12 persons, so they will fill up. Advance booking required.

For more information on our tours and to book tickets, please visit. www.shopgotham.com. Booking code: freeteen

Shop Gotham’s Weekly deal: 20% off the October 1,2o11 Soho & Nolita Chic Boutiques Shopping Tour.  How to Book: www.shopgotham.com. Code: Oct1

Shop Gotham is recognized as #29 on Trip Advisor, of all 160 NYC tours.

I. Coming to New York with the family for Columbus Day weekend?  If yours are teens or older, you know they want to shop! Treat them and yourselves to a Soho & Nolita Chic Boutiques shopping tour. NYC indie boutiques, coolest of the cool, exclusive store discounts and lots of fun facts, like where Leo DiCaprio likes to eat dinner. For more details or to book tickets: www.shopgotham.com. Tours are on Fri, Sat & Sun. mornings and have a maximum of 12 persons.

I. Are you a woman of style or perhaps one who’d like to up her look a bit? Do you love insider deals or a bit of hand-holding. The Garment Center “insider” shopping tour may be for you. Wholesale showrooms and sample sale. need we say more? Tours are on Wed & Fri morning and have a maximum of 12 persons. For more details or to book tickets: www.shopgotham.com.

Visiting NYC July 11-  17? Well you are in luck. Lots of goodies await:

1)Sample Sales  still rage. Take  one of Shop Gotham’s Garment  Center shopping tours and check out hip lines Charlotte Ronson and GAR-DE.  plus: Guests get to order fabulous handbags for the fall at wholesale  - items just shipping to the stores  right now! and so much more.. 

2)MET OPERA in the Park – Central Park that is, tonight july 11th at 8pm

2)Restaurant Week Commences again. True it comes around often now, but hey, a deal is a deal and what a way to check out NYC’s finest of dining.

3)See Brad Paisley in Central Park for Free! Friday, July 15  at 8:00am.   part of the Good Morning America Concert Series. Even city folk appreciate these sweet crooners

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With the stores in Soho & Nolita changing faster than we can keep up with, a full day of reconnaissance was in order. So last week this Shop Gotham owner pounded the pavement (not such a terrible activity). We already reported Erica Weiner, fab & affordable antique & antique like jewelry. Today we also give a shout out to Bit + Piece.  This charming new store carries a well edited selection of designer pieces at discount.  Dresses by DVF, Tory, Oscar de la Renta. Also expect scarves, tops and even bathing suits. Not sure whether are this season or last, but  everything does look current and fresh and the deals are solid. Plus the manager Alex could not be more charming or helpful. Bit + Piece, 246 Mott Street, close to Prince.

Want to SHOWN ALL these great places? take a Shop Gotham Chic Boutiques shopping tour. www.shopgotham.com

Shop Gotham NYC shopping tours is offering a 50% discount! off the May 4th Garment Center “Insider” Shopping Tour (for women). Tickets are VERY limited. If you have ever been curious about those wholesale showrooms and hot designer sample sales, here is the perfect opportunity to save big on your new spring clothes and accessories as well as the tour!

To book.

http://www.shopgotham.com/daily-new-york-shopping-tours.php

code: May4

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NYC loves this season for a lot of reasons:  the cherry trees blooming at Central Park, the sidewalk cafes re-appearing on the streets, the opportunity to wear peep-toed shoes!  But for those who consider shopping a way of life, spring also means SAMPLE SALES!!

April and May feature some of the best sample sales from some of the hottest designers.  Take a Garment Center Insider Tour to get to some of the following sales.   BUT the highlight of the tour will be going behind the scenes and into  some of New York’s top private designer showrooms.   Sign up today!

April 25-30 Fred Perry

April 27-29 Vivienne Tam

April 27-29 Aeffe USA

April 28-30 Paul Smith

May 3-5 Furla

May 9-27 Charlotte Ronson, Odd Molly, Bloch

May 10-12 Rachel Roy/Pink Tartan

May 18-22 Theory

Also coming this spring:  Tory Burch, J. Crew, Lewis Cho and more!  Stay tuned…

Common Dressing Room Question

At Shop Gotham we hear that question over and over.  But guess what?  Sometimes it’s not you, honey, it’s the store.  Blogger Ryan O’Connell posted this hilarious list of stores guaranteed to make you feel fat! See if your favorites (or least favorites) made the list by clicking on the link!

As a long time New Yorker, this owner of Shop Gotham NYC shopping tours has spent plenty of time in Bloomingdales. While I generally do love the store, a visitor is now more than ever, under siege by perfume sprayers and cosmetic product purveyors. So part tongue in cheek, part real advise, here is the visitors guide to avoiding this madness: Enter at the northern most corner of the Third Avenue side (@60th St). This the Men’s accessories dept, where the sprayers are safely not positioned. Step forward a few feet, look left and spot the UP escalator. Walk towards it without making eye contact with anyone, les a sprayer is possibly lurking in the wrong spot. Once on this escalator you are free to calmly roam the 7 other glorious floors. If however, you do need a handbag, cosmetics or costume jewelry – all which lie on that 1st floor, be ready to buck up and enjoy the scents. For more info on shopping in nyc, visit. www.shopgotham.com