Card Shops in New York

New York holds 253 independent card shops across 144 cities. The top of the list is a New York City story — Brooklyn with 23 independents, New York with 20, Staten Island with 7 — but upstate is not thin behind it: Rochester carries 10 and Buffalo 6.

109 of the state's 174 listed places hold exactly one listing, and 30 hold only a chain. 100 GameStop locations make up the chain side of the 353 total.

New York has one of the strongest sports-card shares of any large state: 125 listings are classified sports cards against 251 trading card games, with 23 carrying both labels.

Every New York entry carries an address and a map link; 323 carry a phone number, 296 post hours, and 252 link to a website. 259 have a Google rating attached, which is what the ranking on each list page is built from. Stock, buy prices and event nights are not fields in this dataset, so nothing here can tell you what is in a case today. 203 of the 296 shops that post hours run seven days. On rating weighted by review count, Bleecker Trading UWS in New York (5.0 stars from 594 reviews), Major Sports Cards in Mineola (5.0 stars from 185 reviews), and East End Gaming in Oakdale (4.9 stars from 866 reviews) lead.

113 New York listings are thin records kept out of search results. Among the rest, 259 carry a Google rating and 323 a phone number. City-page order matters more here than almost anywhere, because Brooklyn and Manhattan pages run to dozens of listings and the independents are sorted to the top of them.