“If I have an upcoming project I’m nervous about completing, I go and buy a new pen. The “pen wall” at the Nolita shop - stocked with a rainbow of Le Pens and Kaweco Sport fountain pens and many, many others - has become a favorite among authors, calligraphers, and artists. 21 įounded as a desk-supply outpost of McNally Jackson bookstore, this little shop (and its second iteration on 8th Street) is stuffed to the brim with notebooks, weighty brass scissors, and a particularly impressive selection of writing utensils. “As a certified Snoopy girl,” she says, “I always have to pick up a couple sticker sheets whenever I come in.” They also have a sticker center in the back of the shop with wheels of vintage “Peanuts” characters unusually scented scratch-and-sniffs (onion, pineapple) and glitter letters, shapes, and animals, which is what brings in Sarah Isenberg, a digital-marketing coordinator at MoMA PS1, regularly. Their specialty is situational, actually kind-of-amusing cards, like one for new parents that says “Don’t Fuck It Up” - there are racks and racks of them. Now, the pastel-pink walls of the shop, which is tucked into the first floor of a townhouse in the West Village, spill over with greeting cards. In 2005, sisters Amy Swanson and Beth Salvini - whose parents and grandparents were in the paper business - opened Greenwich Letterpress with personalized stationery, wedding invitations, and baby announcements, all made in-house or at their letterpress in Brooklyn. Greenwich Letterpress, 15 Christopher St.
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