If you like having shops and restaurants in your neighborhood, you have to actually patronize them. Plus, the independent shops are one of the best things about Tribeca!

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BABESTA
••• Everyone loves a taco ($35).
••• Zebra head by Fiona Walker ($160); other animals are available.
••• Buy the cat ($17) and the bunny ($18) for interspecies fun.
••• Baghera classic Peugeot 402 pedal car ($215).

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KORIN
••• All knives are 15% off through December (the code for online is HKS2017); below, the Togiharu Damascus knife ($150), which staff recommended. A knife is especially appropriate for anyone with a second house, because people never seem to stock their second houses with good knives.
••• Set of four dishes ($25).

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MYSTERIOUS BOOKSHOP
••• The manager suggested Friends and Traitors by John Lawton ($26) and Winter Warning by Jerome Charyn ($26).
••• The store also has a line of “Bibliomysteries”—short book-themed stories published individually (and never before)—by the likes of Ian Rankin, Jeffrey Deaver, John Connolly, and Nelson DeMille (from $5). Excellent stocking stuffers.

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GOLDISH
••• This dazzling Opalite pendant wants to be touched ($400).
••• The 14-karat-gold “Ladder to Bliss” can be worn on the neck, hand, or foot ($175).
••• A delicate hand chain ($240).

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PHILIP WILLIAMS POSTERS
••• Philip Williams has posters on just about every subject, so find something relevant to the recipient: someone she admires (Che Guevara, $400), perhaps, or somewhere he vacationed (Rimini, $250); a style she’s fond of (I love this Wiener Werkstätte–ish one, $950), or his spirit animal ($400).

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KINGS PHARMACY
••• Kind of a freaky sleep mask ($5).
••• Be very careful to whom you give a pig-shaped shower cap ($6).
••• I don’t know how much the “From the Dirty Mind of” notepad and “My Bed Guestbook” are because there weren’t sales tags, and when I asked the cashier, she told me to go find a manager, but my curiosity ran out.

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TRIBECA CITIZEN
••• Official TC shirts may not be available forever, you know ($25).

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Previously:
••• Part 1: Best Made Co., Stillfried Wien, Pearl River Mart, Best Friends Pet Adoption Center, Sweaty Betty, Canal Street Market
••• Part 2: Steven Alan, Grown & Sewn and Red Wing Heritage, Balloon Saloon, A Uno Tribeca, Boomerang Toys, Ibiza, Onda Beauty
••• Part 3: Otte, Rag & Bone, Playing Mantis, Alumnae, Patron of the New, Gurhan Atelier, Consort, Gloria Jewel
••• Part 4: Valley, Torly Kid, Schoolhouse Electric, My Little Sunshine, Edon Manor, Seasonal Whispers
••• Part 5: Shinola, Giorgia, Cass Lilien, Stella, Jenni Kayne, Ever After, 180, Abhaya, the Armoury