Fashionable Bushwick crowd, we have great news for you! CollectionsBK, a little San Francisco-style boutique opened on 16A Wilson Ave (right next to Storefront Bushwick gallery), and it won’t ruin your wallets.

Lucy Ann Wheeless had been running her vintage fashion boutique from a studio off the Lorimer L stop. She did pop-up and by appointment sales for two years but she decided to take action when her rent doubled. “Finding spaces in Williamsburg and Greenpoint is very expensive,” Lucy Ann told us. “I found this space on Craigslist,” she continued, discussing the little storefront that used to serve as a barbershop. “And I just moved to an apartment on Stockholm St, so this has been all written in the Universe,” she laughed. “Bushwick has such a wonderful community, and awesome vibe. Williamsburg and Greenpoint are just different,” she explained. “I feel so welcomed and supported. I made so many friends…With young people but also with older people from Bushwick.”

A lot of the clothes at Collections come from the East Coast and the South. Whenever Lucy Ann travels, she shops for clothes. “Recently, I traveled from Florida with my mom all the way up the East Coast, and I was buying and collecting…”