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Shopping Streetwear on 125th Street

125th Street has been Harlem's commercial spine for a century.

Why uptown and not downtown

This is not an oversight. Paper Planes sells wholesale to small neighbourhood retailers rather than to chains, and in Manhattan those shops are uptown.

The two shops

Capsule is on West 125th itself.

What a hundred years of retail actually gives you

Staff who know the product. That is the short version.

What to buy

The Original Crown, the founding 9Fifty, one size, nothing to measure. The safest ask in either shop. Fitted caps if you know your size, and call ahead with it.

The full story has the receipts

Every shop, address and detail is in the full guide, and the store map covers 21 states.

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