Time Galleries inc

This is THE place to stop in if you’re looking for reasonably priced furniture that ain’t IKEA, and have the ability to spot a diamond in the rough. My hunch is that here, they shop estate sales with a keen eye for what vintage-​minded buyers are looking for, and price their stuff to MOVE. Everyone wins!
Our first purchase here was a rad midcentury hutch for our teensy Brooklyn kitchen. We saw it outside, made an offer, and BOOM. It was delivered to our fourth-​story walkup that same afternoon.
Recently we moved to a larger space in Queens (ahem, the new Brooklyn), and suddenly had a need for a coffee table and chair to fill it, as well as a larger dresser. (You know you live in NYC when having the space for a coffee table feels like an incredible luxury.) Again, we struck gold, with a mint condition cedar chest for a coffee table, a lovely blonde wood midcentury dresser, and a perfectly-​broken-​in leather armchair with ottoman. All stuff you’d see for sale at twice the price in Williamsburg or on Dot&Bo, but here, they gave us an additional discount because we were buying so many pieces, and they were willing to deliver to our new spot.
They’ve also helped a friend out with a lovely industrial-​looking coffee table for his midtown apartment – well-​priced, CB2-​catalogue-​worthy and again, delivered with no muss and fuss. And now we send all of our friends to look there first when they’re furnishing a new place.
Sometimes it takes some serious combing to find the good stuff in this place (don’t neglect the basement — we found the aforementioned coffee tables down there, with chairs stacked on top). But it’s worth it!

I have been coming here for over 12 years. Some of the items I purchased — 2 gorgeous dressers — one of which is a ‘John Widdicomb, 2 chairs, mid century modern dining room table, a wing back chair from the 50’s in mint condition. I can’t resist milling about both floors when I pass the store. I have the coolest apartment because Time Galleries is fantastic. Half of my apartment is from there. So yeah, I guess I love it!

Bought over $ 600 of great furniture here and was initially very satisfied with the service. At the time of purchase, the people assisting were friendly and offered delivery for an extra charge.
One of the pieces ended up getting damaged in a move (leg of wooden coffee table was broken off) so I called the store to inquire about restoring the piece. In spite of being able to completely describe the damage to the table (dowels had broken at one of the legs and needed to be replaced so leg could be put back on) they told me I would have to bring the table to the store for a quote. I hauled the table down there and, upon site of the damage, they they quoted me a charge ($ 200) that was double what I had paid when I purchased the table from them. When I noted this and the amount of money I had spent in their store ($ 600), how much the table had cost initially ($ 100) and what needed to be done (replace two wooden dowels, put leg back on), they shrugged me off like one may do if they’re not feeling the chicken salad their co-​worker has offered to share for lunch.
When putting the table back into a cab, the driver dropped the table and it broke further and the guys who run the store stood outside pointing and laughing It was a special moment for all.
Fortunately, a woodworker friend of mine ended up fixing the table and replacing it’s dowels and the rest of the freshly broken bits from the traveling experience for me free of charge. It took him about 45 minutes and the table is restored back to the quality of when I bought it.
Basically, Time Galleries has great shit but treat their customers like they are running a racket, which it seems like they are… big surprise in the antique world, I know. I’d rather be trampled by a hoard of Park Slope strollers than do business here again, but that’s just me.

For someone interested in Antiques, this is a true treasure chest. Sooooo many treasures.
I just moved to Brooklyn and looking around for some cheap furniture entered this shop with not much hope. I stayed a long while. Just going around and around and around. Calculating my budget and my space and my budget again. They have great stuff. Lovely mahogany chest of drawers, next to the now stylish again sideboards from the 1960s. Also lovely bed side tables from the 1930s.
I fell in love with a Neo-​Grecian food stool and had to leave it behind … heartbroken. I don’t need a foot stool, but ohh I so wish I could just buy it anyway.

Yes. This place is no joke. Seriously good furniture, lamps, & art to be found here. Be quick — brisk turnover.

Gems live here. They repair in the lower level and showcase pieces outside.

Remember those special years entering puberty? The long, steamy dreams that you woke up in a pool of some mysterious liquid. At first you bashfully washed the linens in the bathroom sink, hoping no one noticed… then when they started reoccurring, you left them to dry by sleeping without covers well into the winter. Then it happened, that faithful day, you find out where that puddle comes from – more to the point you find out its fun! Not only that, but you find out you can do it with a friend! Hallelujah!
Well that blissful light has charged my body again – praise – I was born again, I. am. Born-​a-​Gay-​n! Hallelujah! Who knew antiques where so fun? (Answer: the gays) Well thanks to Time Galleries I can reach that wonderful climax for less money than I’ve ever thought. Before Time, if you would brought up «antiques» thoughts of middle aged person with an disposable income, not no mo’ homo. Now I am filling my apartment with more dead peoples stuff than ever!
Thanks Time Galleries!