Kixters

This store used to be Thom Brown (hint: it’s exactly the same). It’s your run of the mill shoe store. Smallish, but well laid out.
They have a good selection of boots and sneakers. I haven’t really endeavored to buy sandals there, but the time in which I’m around is usually too cold for such trifles anyhow. They have a decent amount of Clarks chukkas, Doc Martins, New Balance tennis shoes, and many brands of chelsea boots, with or without a bit of heel. My footwear style can be best described as «buy something indestructible that way you won’t have to buy another pair of shoes for at least another 10 years».
Everyone who works there is nice, if not a little detached. But it’s a shoe store not an upscale restaurant, so I have no expectations. I also just really hate shopping for shoes because I’m convinced my left foot is slightly larger. But this has nothing to do with Kixters as a place, so don’t let my f*cked up feet preclude you from shopping here.
There is no student discount. Sometimes I feel like the prices are marked up, but that’s just because I’m used to ordering off of Zappos or some other retailer that tends to offer regular sales.
I’ll leave you with the way The Shops at Yale describes the store, because it’s objectively funnier than anything I could conceive of «Kixters stores are leaders in the metropolitan fashion scene. Kixters has become a fashion Mecca for the 18 to 34 year old hipsters and trend setters.»
Fashion Mecca? Really?

Always carry a good selection of Converse and Sperry’s. Nice small shop, only shoe store located on Broadway. They also have good sales throughout the seasons.

This is a shoe store in a good shopping centric location in the Broadway area of New Haven.
How do you rate a shoe store, I’m asking my self?
Well, I guess I could say that they offer a good selection of trendy fashions in a well-​lit, clean, and upscale retail space. It does not smell like feet, which is a plus considering how many people take their shoes off in a place like this.
Their stock was a little limited as far as size availability, but they did have a decent selection considering the size of the place

Bored staff that could care about waiting on you. Have to beg to see a shoe

I’ve been to several Thom Brown locations, including the one in Boston. All of them are exactly the same, the same layout, small size and white walls and shelves.
The stores all play loud pop music and have sales on a semi– regular basis.
The store is a bit on the expensive side when there isn’t a sale going on. Be warned.
Overall, I’d rather shop somewhere else most of the time.

fancy shoes! wish there were more non-​leather vegan friendly options here but they had a few. sales were decent but seemed to favor womens shoes.

OMG. Best. Sales. EVER.
In fact, there’s one going on right now. And the stuff on sale isn’t the drek that no one would buy. They have a bunch of their in house brand on sale (very nice and comfortable) as well as some Sperry topsiders, Pumas, Roos, Jeffrey Campbell, etc.
There used to be another shoe store on the corner of York and Broadway (or is that Whalley?), but Thom Brown is now pretty much the only decent place to buy shoes in the area. Even when they’re not having a sale (which is pretty much never), they have a very nice, eclectic selection of shoes in a decent price range (about $ 50 to $ 200). They also carry some odds and ends like leather jackets.

The shoes here are pretty expensive for me. But fortunately, I walked into a sale.
I love sales.
I didn’t see anything particularly appealing for myself that was affordable, but I did find a great pair of Puma SpeedCats for (drumroll) $ 35 for my partner. The only thing was that they didn’t have it in his size so I settled for half a size more. But seriously, I haven’t in the history of shoe shopping found a pair of Puma SpeedCats for that cheap (please notify me immediately if you have done otherwise). They were the black ones with the white leather stripes on the side. Classic and Gorgeous. I was so lucky.