On the outside, Dream Fishing Tackle(DFT) appears to be nothing more than, as the name suggests, a fishing store. The brick and mortar sports its original awning from the ’90s, now a dark shade of pink that suggests it was red in some past life. I can’t recall what first lured me into DFT on the day I moved to Greenpoint some years ago, but once I entered, I knew it was amongst the…
Dream Fishing Tackle: Greenpoint’s Quirkiest Brick and Mortar
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love this place!
I miss the old version of the Salvations Thrift shop on Manhattan ave. –anothe victim of gentrification.
You could alos find something unique and inexpensive there, with new merchandise daily.
You conveniently left out the Nazi memorabilia. They have never pulled it out for me. Maybe because I am a woman of color? They pulled it out for my White, male, Polish friend. He didn’t ask for any Nazi memorabilia, he was just looking around, but they pulled it out and offered it for sale to him.
This place is AMAZING!
Honestly the best place in the whole furniture world!
Go check it out it’s worth the trip!
That’s a good old neighborhood store. More like that are needed!!
First class inventory one would be hard pressed to say she doesn’t put the effort in lining up unique collectables but the prices create purchases that require spouse permission before putting down joint AMEX. No price adjustments made for current market value for such luxury items either.
Great article. Really captures the spirit of the shop!
Disgusting People. Rude. Unpolite. Selling stinky garbage from all over around. Biohazard and hooliganism combined. Assembling garbage on the sidewalk. Same stuff you can get from a sanitation worker or private garbage company. Ego of the owner and his associates comparable only with Donald J Trump (Yes You right – Robert, Basia and Slalom Ego at least twice that big…) Laughable, disgusting and STINKY