Get Local! Guide to East Village Shops: In Stores and Online NOW

Support your neighbors! Visit the Get Local! Guide to East Village Shops To list your business, please email: getlocal@evccnyc.org Why Shop Local? When you spend your money locally - avoid franchises, chain stores and the big boxes - you: choose creativity and personality over uniformity provide economic diversity and stability keep more of your money in your community create local jobs with fair living wages sustain small business owners who strengthen the local economy defend your neighborhood's identity from obscurity fight the lie that "lower prices" at the cost of community is a good trade.

Every time you open your wallet, you are voting for the kind of East Village/Lower East Side/Loisaida/Alphabet City you want around you... So back away from that Starbucks and avoid Dunkin Donuts - Support the merchants who are listed in the Get Local! Guide to East Village Shops. Get Local is an initiative of the East Village Community Coalition. To learn more, list your business or make a contribution to support our work, contact us at: East Village Community Coalition 143 Avenue B, Simplex New York, NY 10009 getlocal@evccnyc.org