In its own way, the corner vintage store has become a quiet institution of urban hipsterdom, architects of a past open to colorful appropriation. In an era where every second pop song tries to sound like it came out in 1983, why not dress like it too? 

When Liisa Jokinen moved to New York five years ago, one of the first things she did was start a website called the “NYC Vintage Map,” which she has tended for the last five years and has turned into a smartphone app, reflecting her own singular drive to catalog a city’s worth of vintage stores, while running other vintage-related businesses like Gem, “secondhand search app” to find vintage clothes from online sellers.

In these years, she’s also documented street style too, on her fashion blog “NYC Looks,” at one point syndicated by New York magazine. To celebrate her five years sorting through the second hand store bins of New York, we invited her to tell us her favorite vintage shops in Bushwick. “I love Bushwick for the street styles. Love taking the L train there during the weekends,” says Jokinen.