Pigeon Feathers Take Flight as NYC Souvenir

If you're looking for something out-of-the-ordinary as a memento of your time spent in our fair city, something that goes beyond t-shirts and shot glasses, then step right up - we've got just the gift for you! We are selling genuine pigeon feathers - plucked from the streets of New York and sold as one-of-a-kind NYC souvenirs!

The feathers as NYC souvenir are the brainchild of Alyssa Zygmunt who works as a fashion designer by day, collector and crafter by night. She has collected feathers from all over the city, cleaned and then sealed them in test tubes with an identification tag listing the species and precise location of where the feather was found. The reaction to our feathers has certainly been visceral - people are either left speechless or think they're the greatest idea and can't wait to give them to their friends and family. We happen to be of the latter and want to share with everyone we know!

Your other source for all things made in NYC

If you're not already familiar with one of our favorite non-profits, the New York Industrial Retention Network (NYIRN), then let us introduce you!

NYIRN provides business services for manufacturers, conducts research on the industrial sector, and organizes advocacy for NYC manufacturers.

Like NYIRN, we think manufacturing is important to New York City. Manufacturing plays a critical role for the City's diverse job force. On average, blue collar jobs pay more than a retail or restaurant job and is more likely to be unionized and provide benefits.

One of NYIRN's services is Made in NYC, a free online business-to-business directory of products made in New York. Manufacturers can register their companies and buyers can search for locally-made products, including green products. Made in NYC also provides product sourcing assistance.

Local Labels frequently uses their online service in findingly locally made products to feature on our website and sourcing jobs locally such as printing and packaging services.

Give us your tired, your used. Your worn and broken umbrellas.

Yearning to be recycled. The especially rainy beginning to this summer got us thinking about umbrellas - and how there's so many of them that wind up in the city's streets and trash cans after a gusty rainstorm. So we were thrilled to team up with Himane, a fashion and design company founded by Haiti native Catherine Edouard-Charlot to collect broken umbrellas from water-logged commuters at our Grand Central kiosk.

Catherine refashions the umbrellas into creatively designed and waterproof bags and totes which we then sell at $15 for a tote, which when folded resembles an umbrella and $45 for a multipurpose and portable folding bag. We also offer custom bags from the Himane collection. So let it rain!