Christopher Cawley asked me to meet him at the 75 East Broadway mini-mall, nestled beneath the Manhattan Bridge. The ground floor is packed with stalls selling fresh produce, Chinese herbal medicine, and cheap flip-flops. But upstairs lives one of New York’s best-kept secrets: an emporium for designers, artists, and furniture dealers, from the vintage hot spot James Veloria to the fashion label Eckhaus Latta and the jeweler Reliquary.
“It’s the one place in Manhattan where you can take a risk and the rent isn’t going to burn you,” says Cawley, 33, who launched his eponymous antiques business in March of 2023.
