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Beacon, NY
Tasteless and disorganized -
11/10/2019Great shopping they said, cute town, great art, lots of culture, amazing antique stores, fashionable and chic, a home away from home for Brooklyn and NYC denizens.
No stores here seem to be able to figure out what exactly they are. Except of course the seemingly endless bridal shops of questionable quality. Not that quality is the biggest issue when the 1980s is your wedding theme, which is pretty much what they offer. There were puffed sleeves.
There's a falafel taqueria, because even the food is confused.
They have a hot sauce store with what appears to be used boots and hats.
At the women's boutiques, nestled in between shapeless overpriced beige and orange they have things like the town children's book which is about a cat that runs away. You root for the cat's escape.
The most fun store in town is an "antique" shop that's 90% made in China most definitely not antiques. In the front of that store they sell cheap beanie hats with Nazi eagles embroidered on and under the eagle "boy".
In the store windows on proud display are sweaters that actually made me appreciate both my grandmother and the 1990s because of how impossibly bad they were. Pepto pink and yellow wool in shapeless sack like clothing is apparently a bit hit there.
Half the stores offer wine. That's probably because you have to be pretty drunk to buy small bowls the size of a thumb meant for salt from the same store selling high waisted orange pants in shag carpet material.
The crowning glory is a gallery of rocks with phallic looking rocks that look frankly diseased.
The brewery has kinda gross beers that are all IPA sours that taste like straight vinegar.
It appears to be 95% women in their late 30s that need diets and definitely all have cats.
It's basically hipster hell.