Where to Buy Paper Planes in the Bronx

Four shops in the Bronx carry Paper Planes: Sneaker Bar in Mott Haven, Capsule on Fordham Road, 4U House of Fitteds on White Plains Road in Allerton, and Gravity on East Tremont in Throgs Neck.

Start with what you want on your head. If it is a snapback, the Original Crown is the founding 9Fifty and the piece all four are most likely to have, one size, adjustable, nothing to measure.

If you want a fitted, go to 4U House of Fitteds. The name is not decoration. A fitted has no closure and is sized to your head, so depth of stock in crown sizes is the whole game, and a specialist carries depth a general streetwear shop does not. It opens at 10, before the other three. Call (718) 882-5484 with your size before you travel. How to measure →

Unlike Brooklyn, where one operator runs most of the doors, these four are separate businesses at four corners of the borough. No single trip covers the Bronx, and that is the point. Each serves its own piece of it.

Two are worth knowing for stock reasons. Capsule and Sneaker Bar both run online stores alongside the shop floor, which is unusual for independents this size and means their inventory turns quickly. What is on the wall tends to be current season rather than last.

Capsule sits on Fordham Road, the busiest retail street of the four, so if you are coming from another borough and making one stop that is the practical choice. Gravity out in Throgs Neck covers a corner of the Bronx most brands never reach at all.

None of the four carries the whole range. They buy for the people who walk in, which is why the selection differs shop to shop, and why a phone call beats a guess.