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heights kids: the buy buy baby of brooklyn
sometimes you really just need to know where to go. when we made the big move across the east river as a family a few years ago (i already felt like a brooklynite as i had lived out here right after college), we had no idea where to get baby stuff when s. was born back at at the very very end of 2006. when we were in manhattan, of course, the only easy place for basics was buy buy baby. not my favorite shop in terms of styles available, or the most trendy items, but it was sooo easy.
as we continued to trek into chelsea for bottles and other items that had been lost or destroyed by k several years before, i decided we finally had enough and just had to find somewhere in brooklyn where we could get these things. and while there was nothing in park slope or right nearby, when i finally found heights kids i couldn’t believe i hadn’t been coming there all along. this is no fancy shop. while they have some high end strollers (the bugaboo of course), they also have the more mundane like the workhorse maclarens which was more our style, and price point. i really love the service at heights kids. they’ll fix up old equipment, and their real selling point is on the mysterious car seats. staff from heights kids will install, and reinstall, car seats for you right then and there. no worries about whether you did it right, and if you have to readjust they’ll do that too. i love that. made life so much better.
heights kids is pretty big at around 3,000 square feet and they do carry a lit bit of everything. they have a whole room of toys (though i would opt for a place like lulu’s or acorn before heading here), and every single kind of baby oriented device you might need — potty seats, droppers, breast pumps and all the associated accessories, portable cribs, layettes (not the prettiest but they’ll do), sippy cups and the list goes on. so don’t go here for great style or beauty, but if you are incredibly sleep deprived and just need that one extra binky that will make your baby sleep all night heights kids is the place. heights kids, 85 pineapple walk near henry street, brooklyn, new york, .