Here Be Old Things: 30,000 feet of antique furniture: Granny's Attic Antiques

Granny's Attic Antiques
619 Maple Avenue, Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ
Monday–Friday 10 am –8 pm
Saturday and Sunday 10 am –6 pm
201-632-0102
PATH to Hoboken; New Jersey transit to Ho-Ho-Kus

I've been shopping for furniture on Craig's List; a few months ago, I noticed a store called Granny's Attic Antiques placing multiple ads trying to entice shoppers out to Bergen County. It looked like just the sort of place I was looking for: a large warehouse chock full of choices.

Last week I went to scope it out. The store is 30,000 square feet and three floors crammed with antique furniture, much of it on consignment. It's the perfect place to shop for that armoire every closetless NYC apartment needs.

I'm not going to tell you to argue prices with Maury Lubman, the proprietor. He holds issue with reporters who advise antique hunters to bargain prices down by a third. "What if I called up their boss and told him to cut their salaries by a third?" he growled. Good point. After 42 years in the business, his are eyes that have seen it all: the devastation on the trade that a weak dollar, eBay and Antiques Road Show has caused, and the vanishing of antique dealers up and down the county.

Still, as we talked, I noticed a good number of people wandering the floors, sizing up the goods. Before I could ask the price, a painting of a collie that I was looking at was snapped up by a dealer from the city. It seems that Granny's Attic is well known as a good hunting ground. Granny's Attic buys and sells quality antiques, art, rugs, jewelry, toys and estate furnishings, and offers consignment. Ask Maury if he has an auction planned any time soon, or when his next poetry night, "Tuesdays with Maury," is going to be held.

Here's an interesting article on how Lubman is meetings the challenges of the antiques business today: Antiques vet survives by changing [northjersey.com]