Sterling Place

While this location may be a bit more cramped than the Garfield/​7^th store, it is literally overflowing with fantastic gifts, decorations ideas and treasures! It’s a mixture of antiques and modern gifts, but everything meshes so well you can pair the new stuff with the old easily. The associates are mostly willing to help you hunt down the perfect gift or pairing of items, as well. I have encountered one or two fairly indifferent or even surly employees, but they seem to have vanished in the last year. Mostly everyone is very accommodating, willing to order almost anything for us, and have some of the best items for a tiny Brooklyn apartment you can find! Jane went above and beyond to help us hunt down the perfect dining table for our space among their inventory and to help us get our home wet bar set up with all of the essentials.
The items are pricey, but they are also amazing quality and if anything breaks, they will go above and beyond to try and replace it for you. We brought back an olive wood bowl that had a crack in it. The employee there was concerned about the quality of the other bowls from that order, and offered us a different bowl (which we ended up liking even more) instead!
Truly a gem!

Cool and classy. A trip here is like stepping into the pages of a fancy home-​decorating magazine. It’s part of the stretch of antique and home stores on this part of Atlantic Avenue, and it’s the store I’d be most likely to make a purchase from during a day of shopping there.
It does have beautiful old pieces for sale, but it’s really more of a well-​designed gift store, with a selection of tasteful, fun, and whimsical items suitable for kids and adults. Give a gift from here and it will really stand out. Or leave empty-​handed yet inspired by the smart décor and the thought and care that have clearly gone into this place.

What a great place and what treasures I found there! This place was like walking into my Grandma’s so many wonderful antiques. The only thing I didn’t like was that I had gone to the store on the tuesday before Xmas and returned 5 days later to find something I that was priced at $ 45. originally was now $ 58. I felt like they price gouged for the holidays but other than that it was very nice. They had modern cook books ect but generally it was a lovely place with decent prices considering.

They sell Biosphere’s here if you’re ever looking for one. 4 stars just because I found exactly what I was NOT looking for and love watching the shrimps do their thing~

This is just a quick supplement to my other review of Sterling Place (Park Slope store). Again, still a fan, but there is something about this location that lacked the magic of the other store. I can’t really put my finger on it, but maybe it just felt more cluttered, or less consistently awesome in what was on offer? I really can’t say.
Still a great store, and we of course found a bunch of stuff we wanted, but I think I still prefer the Park Slope location. I should also add that all the staff that I’ve ever dealt with at either location have been super friendly, helpful and willing to answer any questions I’ve had.

I like this place and have bought a few «gems» from them. They carry a number of eclectic, old school, «antiqu-ish”/ vintage items or items that are designed to „look“ vintage… all good. The owner has 2 locations, the other being in South Park slope. I like this one a little better even though they carry 80−95% of the same stuff…
The owner looks for and finds odd, rare and older items that are restored or purchases from companies that make items that have a classic feel and touch to them (men’s shaving kits, globes, table clocks, gadgets with leather pouches, folding travel hangers, watches, stair and yacht models and even stationary).
The items are typically decent and of good quality usually. I would say there are not any „cheap“ or flimsy items in this store. They all tend to be of good or better quality. So if you need a nice gift for someone, I would recommend this store — especially for men, in my opinion…
I like think of this shop as a good place to start for Father’s Day or for gifts for someone who „has everything“…it is sort of a, pardon the expression, a „Sharper image“ type store but with better, classic tastes…
You’ll find the overpriced grill or cutlery set, but it will likely be of better quality with a „vintage/​classic“ feel to it. You won’t find any „necessities“, but you’ll find yourself needing that cool thing on the table display. And it will likely last longer than the ‘Sharper Image» crap.
I would say as many things on Atlantic Avenue, the prices are probably about 15 — 20% higher than I would like, BUT I have never left there with a purchase I was disappointed with. The rent is high on Atlantic Avenue so I am sympathetic to store owners there…
So right after you pay, you forget about it and move on… Now some of the mass produced stuff can be found online for less, but the real good purchases are those unique items the owner finds and restores. You have to go regularly to make sure you don’t miss out on those items…

This is the perfect store to shop at when you need a great gift. The price range is great so you can be thoughtfully cheap or lavish. I always leave with something just right for the recipient. My husband loves his razor with the antique ivory handle and his antique pocket watch. They have beautiful crafts and lovely unique antiques. Never been disappointed. And they gift wrap.

I really like this place. Aside from the fact that Atlantic Ave is great for antique stuff, this place has a great mix of stuff. If you come to my house you will fell like you’re visiting grandma’s with all the vintage and antique stuff we have too. No plastic covering our chairs though! Anyhow, this store has great finds starting from old bookcases, steamer trunks, to shaving implements made from antique ivory and silver utensil handles and the like. The best is that they are housed in a great space with these «door» like things on the ceiling, with a whole bunch of pre-​warish detailing. Even the door knob when you come into the store is great! Very light, open space although they have tons of stuff. The only problem is that they are a tad pricey and I being the kind of person that gets turned on by bargains, find it hard to imbibe too often.

So, I used to be a fan of this store because they had unique items that made for good gifts. They would cost you a little more (like $ 30 for a candle or $ 50 for a small decorative plate), but they were original.
HOWEVER, my fiancé and I decided to register there, as well as the usual big name stores. We spent about 2 hours going around making a list of the items we would like listed on our registry, and and we were told by the salesman that there website was currently down, but he will take pictures of the items and upload them, and it would be up in a few days. We asked if there was anything else we needed to do, and he told us we were all set.
Now its 6 weeks later, the bridal shower passed and their website still isn’t up. OK, no big deal, that’s why we gave people three registry options. But then I come to find out that a friend went to the store because she knew we had registered there. They told her that they could not seem to find any record of our registry. A week later, they email her to say that they have made attempts to contact us because we needed to set up an online account. And as you can guess, no one ever contacted me or my fiancé. This is what pissed me off… if you f@ck up take responsibility, don’t blame the customer.
So if you are registering, leave it to the big stores that do it all the time, not Sterling Place because they haven’t a clue.
UPDATE: After the owners read my review here, they contacted my wife. I guess our registry was either the only one they had taken, or it was the only one they screwed up. The owner was very apologetic and took full responsibility for the way our registry was mismanaged. As a peace offering, a $ 100 store credit was extended to us. So we are now the owner’s of a beautiful picnic-​set backpack.

sterling place is a lovely shop with oodles of pretty gifty things. don’t expect any brightly colored plastic or über-​cutesy stuff, though. very classic, refined and more organic offerings. beautiful dishes and glassware, globes, maps, antique hutches, ostrich eggs and lots of other treasures. i’m a bit of a problem shopper and there was a lot here that i haven’t run across before. prices run the gamut from a $ 12 clever and highly stylized mini-​planner to a beautiful map of new york platter for $ 125. wonderful place-​on the list for my holiday shopping.

It’s a shame, because this is a great store with unusual items. However, the owner, Robert (I believe his name is) is so unfriendly. They have 2 stores in Brooklyn & rather than trying to create a nice image for themselves in the neighborhood & trying to draw more customers, they have absolutely no sense in business! They may not last if they continue with that sort of attitude… My experience has been so bad that I’ll never go back again!