Shops in Downtown Jersey City

A used vinyl shop on Brunswick Street open since 1996, which makes it older than most of the buildings around it. Stock is secondhand and stacked rather than sorted into a display. It opens two days a week and that is the whole schedule.

Mon and Sat, noon to 6pm. Closed Tue to Fri and Sun

The Jersey City branch of a Greenpoint bookshop, now on a side street off Hamilton Park rather than its old Newark Avenue address. It is a general-interest shop with a staff-recommendation habit and a children's section at the back, and it runs readings and a book club. Open the same hours seven days a week, which very little else here manages.

Daily, 10am to 7pm