beacon’s closet is a home grown and locally owned operation. we are a 100% brooklyn based, female founded company that embraces sustainability and ethical business practices.
beacon's provides a competitive wage to our employees and offers 85% health insurance coverage for full timers, six months of paid family leave, and two paid vacation/personal weeks. each store has a common partner, founder carrie peterson. they are run as partnerships with previous beacon's managers turned co-owners, cindy wheeler, cindy h, adrian d, beth moon-burgess, and lily ciccarone (some history).
we are consistently named as one of the top 10 secondhand stores in NYC, and have received much love from local, and international press, including features in: goop, the new yorker, thrillist, buzzfeed, vanity fair, time out ny, gothamist, refinery 29, ny times, teen vogue, italian vogue, french vogue, crains, and the wall street journal.
goop says: WHY WE LOVE IT
Ask any in-the-know New Yorker where you might score the best vintage in the city and you’ll likely get this answer: Beacon’s Closet. A goldmine of sorts, Carrie Peterson’s legendary consignment store has a little bit of everything—from au courant pieces by Proenza Schouler, Isabel Marant, and Acne to one-of-a-kind finds that walked straight out of 1970 (where do you think all those epic Hawaiian shirts Zoë Kravitz wears in High Fidelity came from?). Now with four locations (Greenpoint, Park Slope, Bushwick, and Greenwich Village), this vintage mecca continues to reign supreme.
time out ny lists us as #1, in their feature of NYC's 10 best shops:
"Beacon’s Closet for mountains of vintage and a killer shoe selection."
new york magazine lists us in their best stores guide:
"These chic little shops are stuffed with stylish, lightly used downtown essentials and groovy vintage pieces"
paper magazine calls us "Environmentally- and trendy- friendly":
"The Closet keeps the locals and out-of-towners groovily dressed for less."
vanity fair lists us as #5 in their guide to williamsburg.