Card Shops in Albany, New York

Albany, New York has 6 card shops in our directory — 3 are filed under trading card games and 4 under sports cards; 1 is filed under both and counts in each. Every listing has an address and a Google Maps link; 5 of 6 also have a phone number and 6 have posted hours.

The 6 listings break down as 5 independent shops and 1 chain location; the chains are grouped separately below so a local store always leads the page. Looking at the 6 posted schedules here: 3 are open every day of the week, 2 close on Mondays, and 3 close on Sundays. The nearest other cities with shops on file are Watervliet (1 shop, about 6 miles), Schenectady (4 shops, about 7 miles), and Glenmont (1 shop, about 7 miles). Ratings exist for 4 of these 6 shops; weighting each rating by how many reviews stand behind it puts Finnigan's Sportscards first, on 4.8 stars across 122 reviews.

For context, New York as a whole carries 253 independent shops in 144 cities alongside 100 chain locations. Ranked by independent count, Albany is seventh of the 144 New York cities that have an independent shop on file. 3 of the 6 listings link out to a website of their own; where a field is missing from a record we leave it blank rather than guess at it. The directory holds no inventory data for any of these shops, so what is in the case on a given afternoon is not something this page can answer. Our guide to finding a good card shop covers what to ask on the phone, and the starter guide covers the rest.