I Visited the Best Pokémon Card Shops in New York City

These guys feel great when they see a YouTuber walk in

Avoid both Cards and Coffee and Bleecker Trading if you’re looking for Pokémon in NYC. Cards and Coffee has completely fallen off. Management is awful - not only do they not know anything about Pokemon, but they’ll try and rip you off if you’re looking to sell or trade by offering 50-60% on whatever your cards are actually worth. They also recently sold my friend a light vintage pack for the price of a heavy, which is super scummy business. Next door at Bleecker Trading isn’t much better. They have slightly more selection, but everything comes with a MAJOR West Village tax. They’ll bend over backwards negotiating deals for a YouTuber/influencer, but their buying practices for the average Joe are just as bad as the shop next door. Most of their slabs are SGC and the staff knows nothing about Pokemon either. The shop is tiny and super claustrophobic if there’s anyone else in the store. They host trade nights, but it’s 99% sports cards anyways. Save your time and money - avoid Cards and Coffee and Bleecker Trading in NYC.

That last shop is awesome. Really cool stuff and not super crowded like a Collectacon would be.

5:02 Tbh if I am buying cards from a store I would like for the people selling them to actually know what they are selling. I'd expect that much at a bare minimum. Not the price of every card in existence but at least larger items... Of course the tin has packs in it that was kind of a dumb answer. That salamence tin has been reprinted recently... the back still says 2019, but it has modern silver and lost origin packs within. It also says "Vstar" on the back in a paragraph letting you know its a repacked tin and not the original. You could get cheated out of a purchase if they told you it was 2019.

Ayeeee DaShop and PokeCourt are top tier stores! Great people too

The way the first guy was taking the cards out of the binder he was like yanking them out of there

I was just looking up card shops to go to in NY, so clutchhhhhh!

TCG Store names that don't actually sell the 2nd thing... "Cards and ______" ???

As someone who lived near the city I’d frequent these ALL THE TIME! Da Shop in china town, dude working always is super helpful and caring . Awesome to see his shout out!

Victor and Courtney are the goat of tcg

You got to go to Queens like the flushing area. They got great card shops there and it’s in the New York metro area

that dog was the highlight of the video.

As always, great, entertaining video and rating the shops was a really cool idea to mak the video more fun!

Great to meet you at Pokecourt! I was the dude in the blue shirt and white pants :)

Coffee store was terrible xD

Dude thanks for making this. I live in NYC and have gone to a few of these places, but will check out the rest soon.

Thanks for sharing! We live in NYC. My son and I are going to check out some of these places today.

the last shop is insane

Every store in NY has one piece while in PA we got nothing. Awesome video and looking forward to more videos!

I'll be visiting New York in a few days for the first time and just incidentally found your video. What a beautiful coincidence! :)