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2.0 of 5 stars.
Not surprised that this placed closed down. Let's face it, it carried a lot of collectibles, old toys, dirty dusty toys and hell the store itself was dusty as hell. Sometimes I wondered if anyone has...
yelp.com - user review - 08/08/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
We'll miss you!
yelp.com - user review - 02/05/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
One of a kind shop in the city, it's a shame its gone. If you're desperate to buy something you had seen here you can travel to PA to get it, that's where they moved. For those who didn't have a...
yelp.com - user review - 02/03/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I can't believe this place is leaving NYC. I loved every single crazy little doll, bloomer, dress, pimp hat, action figure, glass, etcetcetcetc. This is/was an antique/vintage shop with a lot of...
yelp.com - user review - 01/17/2009
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3.0 of 5 stars.
Too much to choose from! You can find the strangest most awesome things at this place. I got a killer new kids on the block tank top. This place was awesome and will be missed!
yelp.com - user review - 01/15/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
So sad to hear that this is closing!It's known to most people as the place where Madonna sold her jacket in "Desperately Seeking Susan," but it was way more than that to me. Chock filled with toys...
yelp.com - user review - 01/03/2009
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2.0 of 5 stars.
This store has so much potential. I've been twice, one with a friend where I purchased some Duran Duran trading cards, and another, looking for a certain pop culture doll for my boyfriend. [ahem] But...
yelp.com - user review - 12/30/2008
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2.0 of 5 stars.
The man who works here told my friend and I that no pictures were allowed in the store, which would be fine... except he addressed us in an inexcusably rude manner. He was eying us really weirdly...
yelp.com - user review - 11/15/2008
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2.0 of 5 stars.
If you want to feel like your youth was more important and more valuable than it probably was, this is your place. Toys, dolls, action figures all overpriced just enough to make you think, "if only I...
yelp.com - user review - 11/15/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
This isn't your typical vintage shop.. you can find bellbottoms and platform shoes straight out of th 60's and 70s.. fraggle rock and smurf toys that came free with your mcdonald's kids meals in the...
yelp.com - user review - 11/03/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
whenever people find out that i've never seen the original willy wonka and the chocolate factory they question whether i grew up in the united states. when i tell them yes, i did grow up here, they...
yelp.com - user review - 09/16/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
Really musty inside, but great random trinkets! Never seen so many Smurf and vintage Playboy memorabilia.
yelp.com - user review - 09/06/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
11 months a year, I could care less about this place-too much dust, junk and shenanigans. When the Halloween season rolls in, I change my tune. I don't want to be one of those poor souls rifling...
yelp.com - user review - 08/21/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I'm glad to see this store is still around, as it has been a few years since I lived in NY and I would love to stop back in on my next visit. Such a great little place for nostalgic gifts, this store...
yelp.com - user review - 07/13/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Looking for the Mattel Rocker Edition Barbie? Maybe you weren't yet, but when you enter "Love Saves the Day" on 2nd Avenue, just a hop, skip and jump away from St. Marks, you'll TOTALLY want it....
yelp.com - user review - 06/11/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Dude! Rainbow Brite's mom lives here and that is soooo badass. If you've ever wandered in here, you know exactly who I am talking about. She's the wild looking, out there chick who works behind the...
yelp.com - user review - 06/05/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
I can't very well write about Toy Tokyo and not write about Love Saves the Day. They're right next to each other, for one thing. While Toy Tokyo focus on toys, Love Saves the Day has just about...
yelp.com - user review - 05/08/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
When I was much younger, I was Desperately Seeking Madonna. I was one of those 14 year olds who would get into Danceteria with the fake ID, wearing my friend's work jacket from Toys 'r Us because it...
yelp.com - user review - 04/27/2008
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5.0 of 5 stars.
While I've never actually bought anything from here, I love to go in the store everytime I go by to see what else they might have gotten in lately. If I had all my toys from the 70's, I would make a...
yelp.com - user review - 04/09/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
A store that is quintessential East Village to me and I hope that even with the current evolution of the East Village that it doesn't close.It's a great place to buy everything 80s and beyond: TMNT...
yelp.com - user review - 02/13/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
It was "Charlie" time. Alone in The City on a Saturday afternoon, I had a nice brunch, if oatmeal and coffee is brunch on a bench in Union Square and ended up walking up and down the East and West...
yelp.com - user review - 01/16/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
The '90s band Tuscadero had a song called "Nancy Drew," in which the singer protests her parents' purging her childhood toys:"You threw out my Nancy Drew booksMy model horses from MassachusettsAll my...
yelp.com - user review - 06/29/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
whoa.everything hanging around catches the eye, but you'll eventually really look around to notice so of the strange toys like fake dung. have fun roaming around in there, you may find you'll have a...
yelp.com - user review - 04/28/2007
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3.0 of 5 stars.
I love that the store has all sorts of kitchy items,and its cute that every inch of space is taken up,however I have never actually bought anything though I have been here several times to show it to...
yelp.com - user review - 02/11/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
You want a Jesus action figure? Yea, they got that. How about every wrestling action figure you could ever dream of? yea they got that too but you can't touch 'em. Theyre behind glass cases....BUT I...
yelp.com - user review - 01/18/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I hope the rumors that they are closing soon are false - this place is a gem. I found a leather jacket here for a costume and it only cost me $40 bucks. ('Course the zipper was busted. Details,...
yelp.com - user review - 10/29/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Pop culture extrordinaire. Sell your Star Wars figues and barbie dolls here. Stop by just to pick up a couple of floating eyesballs & some bazzooka gum. This store rules on memory lane....
yelp.com - user review - 09/04/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
If you're ever feeling Eighties nostalgia, definitely stop by Love Saves The Day. You'll find everything from big-ass New Kids on the Block buttons to the Barbies you sold at a garage sale when you...
yelp.com - user review - 09/01/2006
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3.0 of 5 stars.
Don't come in here expecting to buy clothing. Do come in expecting to buy vintage Playboys, vintage toys, metal lunchboxes, and other ridiculous things. I hope it never goes out of business because...
yelp.com - user review - 03/26/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I'm a sucker for kitch and toys, so it shouldn't be a surprise that Love Saves the Day is one of my favorite stores in NYC. I love checking out the random action figures and random doodads they have...
yelp.com - user review - 03/09/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Toy junkie's wet dream. They have more Pez dispensers than the wife of the eBay founder. Although I probably wouldn't buy anything here, I give this store 4 stars for the concept and the name alone....
yelp.com - user review - 03/08/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
One of my favorite stores, and I love the name, makes me smile everytime. If you are into action figures and toys, they have a really fun selection to sift through. Also a cool - if a little pricey -...
yelp.com - user review - 01/24/2006
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2.0 of 5 stars.
Weird, weird place. I mean, who buys used dolls? I learned not to do that from a young age when there was an annual Christmas toy collection at my grammar school. No used toys! No used toys! was...
yelp.com - user review - 01/09/2006
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2.0 of 5 stars.
Used kitsch. NO PHOTOS INSIDE NO PHOTOS INSIDE! That encompasses my experience here.
yelp.com - user review - 01/08/2006
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3.0 of 5 stars.
I guess Love Saves the Day is cool because Madonna came here one time, but if you go by that logic a whole lotta not very cool places would have to suddenly be considered cool. The overstuffed...
yelp.com - user review - 12/02/2005
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I have to agree with several of the other reviewers who said that Love Saves the Day is a great place to visit, but for the most part, too expensive to shop at. It's almost like a museum of vintage...
citysearch.com - user review - 11/28/2005
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4.0 of 5 stars.
This place can make anyone feel nostalgic. Seinfeld fans, it always reminds me of the one where Jerrys girlfriend had the vintage toy collection and wouldn't let him play with it. Well now here is...
yelp.com - user review - 11/15/2005
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4.0 of 5 stars.
This is the kind of place where you want to touch everything. It's a vintage toy store that seems to have every single toy from everyone's childhood under one roof. It's somewhat expensive but...
yelp.com - user review - 10/31/2005
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3.0 of 5 stars.
In the 1985 movie Desperately Seeking Susan, Madonna buys the leather jacket that helps to define her character. Nothing much has changed in this store in the twenty years since the movie came out....
yelp.com - user review - 10/27/2005
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This store is packed wall to wall with vintage stuff. From comic books, clothing, magaiznes, books, toys and games. They bring you back to your childhood with all those toys you thought you'd never see again....
citysearch.com - user review - 10/10/2005
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This is a great store for people to see ttoys and other things from there childhood. I love the sign on the door that warns Unattended children will be sold as slaves. It is wall to wall of vintage items, such...
citysearch.com - user review - 09/07/2005
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In the 1985 movie Desperately Seeking Susan, Madonna buys the leather jacket that helps to define her character. Nothing much has changed in this store in the twenty years since the movie came out. Th...
judysbook.com - user review - 08/21/2005
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The moment you step in you giggle with the funny sign on the door and the assortment of things that will stir your memories. I was so psyched to see Hello Kitty, Pez dispensers, Carebears, Pound Pupp...
judysbook.com - user review - 08/20/2005
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This is a great store for people to see things from there childhood. I love the sign on the door that warns "Unattended children will be sold as slaves". It is wall to wall of vintage items, such as...
judysbook.com - user review - 08/19/2005
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I can't very well write about Toy Tokyo and not write about Love Saves the Day. They're right next to each other, for one thing. While Toy Tokyo focus on toys, Love Saves the Day has just about ever...
judysbook.com - user review - 08/05/2005
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While it's really cool to see all these cool vintage toys and paraphernalia on display and on sale, I have to ask myself, with eBay in existence, who in their right mind would pay these prices? This place is...
citysearch.com - user review - 07/26/2005
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This is a great place to go browsing to see old toys, magazines and general amusing crap made out of plastic. They have a Pee Wee Herman doll. Star Wars figurines and vehicles and other plastic throwbacks to...
citysearch.com - user review - 07/17/2005
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Every square inch of this place is packed with vintage something or other - comic books, furniture, clothes, magazines, books, toys and games. Definitely a fun and quirky place to check out even if you don't...
citysearch.com - user review - 07/17/2005
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I have been shopping here at least once a week for EVER (I think it has been open for like 40 years!). They have by far the cheapest vintage clothing prices in all of NYC for amazing 1900 to 1980s pieces, and...
citysearch.com - user review - 07/08/2004
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Love Saves the Day is a fabulous store featuring toys, magazines, glassware, clothes and lunchboxes from the 1950's to the present. It's so fabulous that it was even featured in "Desperately Seeking Susan." I...
citysearch.com - user review - 08/06/2003
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