Coxsackie Antique Center: A Hudson Valley Treasure Trove
If you’re antique shopping in the Catskills, the Coxsackie Antique Center is hard to beat. This Hudson Valley treasure trove has enough furniture, vintage beer paraphernalia, clothes, wall hangings, and one-of-a-kind tchotchkes, to fill hours of blissful browsing. With 100 dealers under one roof, there’s something for every budget and style.
Perhaps you’re looking for a sign featuring mischievous cats for a home where dad’s opinion doesn’t matter, or a flower-shaped wall clock, or a groovy vintage wardrobe. Maybe you’re more into needlepoint and terrifying mugs.
Maybe you’re on the market for some glow-in-the-dark glassware and feel that the low levels of radioactivity in uranium glass are well worth the risk.
A Snowbaby dressed as a chicken could hang out on your Christmas mantel and stick around until Easter. Prefer an elephant made of oyster shells? Coxsackie Antique Center has got you. (Note: I cannot guarantee that any of these items will remain available by the time you get over there. Act now, friends.)
Sending love to the dealer who branded some old photographs as “Instant Ancestors.” When I was a baby, my grandfather bought an antique painting of a woman and called her Mona. You can see her in our old house here, and we still have her on the wall in our current place. She isn’t technically an ancestor, but she feels like the keeper of our family home and helped inspire my daughter’s name, Ramona.
Not every kid wants to get lost in an antique shop, but this was a major pastime for me in my youth, and it’s fun to watch my own offspring follow in my footsteps. My son could sit in this used book booth for hours.
Sorry, guys, but this copy of Battles of the Medieval World is no longer available! Archer bought it, along with a tome about flags and a big book about archaeology.
I did not take home this book, but the precious cover image made it hard to resist. (Please link me to your man-approved healthy recipes in the comments.)
Oh hi! Here I am on the hunt for a mirror. I wish I had an elegant bedroom with a giant dresser to perch this one on, but our house is more of a bunker with an Americana theme, thanks to the decorations collected by my grandfather when I was a kid.
This 1970’s eagle mirror fit the bill! It’s going to look perfect next to the Scoutmaster hat rack that I scored from Cabin Modern in Brooklyn.
We did not adopt this doll, though we appreciated her bombastic side-eye.
On our way back to our car with all of our newfound treasures, we encountered yet another spooky delight. (Don’t worry, it’s just a doll.)
The Coxsackie Antique Market is air-conditioned in the summer (making it both literally and figuratively cool, as its sign implies). My tween and teen would agree that it’s a fun place to spend an afternoon searching for something amazing.
Coxsackie Antique Center is located at 2400 State Route 9W, New Baltimore, NY; (518) 731-8888. Open from 10am to 8pm daily.
Coxsackie Antique Center in New Baltimore, NY
