MeMe Antenna

Tried to order gift online from this store. Despite paying for expedited delivery, the item did not arrive on time. Very disappointed.

MeMe Antenna is located inside a very small «mini mall» in the outskirts of Williamsburg. The items here are very cute and memorable, but very expensive. They’re mostly Japanese based, that’s why. Overall, this shop is great for purchasing cute little gifts and souvenirs for friends, family, and loved ones.

This store caught my eyes very quickly. I love just about everything in here. Jewelry prices should go down about $ 5 – 10.

Can’t step in here without smiling. I always find something random that I didn’t know I needed.
Most recently I bought a high quality cyan rubber stamp ink pad (less than $ 10) and a pair of gorgeous sunglasses (less than $ 20). They have all kinds of jewelry, vintage toys, trendy kitchenware, and accessories for your tech stuff.
If you need a gift or want to pick up something quirky to brighten your day, check this place out!

I accidentally wandered in here when I was desperate to get a gift right before a party and MeMe Antenna was a godsend. I was looking for a piece of jewelry in Williamsburg that wasn’t over $ 150, and MeMe had some vintage stud earrings out and I bought a few since they were reasonably priced.
MeMe had a nice variety of items with varying prices. I’m a fan. Literally went back a couple of weeks later to get another gift.

This place is soooo cool! I don’t really come to brooklyn so I was really surprised when I first walked in the mini mall. This store is one of my favorites in the mall. They sell so many things in this little shop! Everything is so cute and interesting, I spend a lot of time taking pictures and checking out what they have here. Definitely a good place to kill your time and discover something new :)

Okay, come on, this is unreal…
I’m not a native Williamsburger, I’m from Queens. So, when I passed by the mini-​mall it’s in, which looks like a crack den, I never thought about entering. Well, yesterday I did. I’m glad I did, every store in this place is awesome, it’s so surprising, because from the street, you would not expect such high quality stores like MeMe Antenna to be in here. This place is completely unreal.
The store is awesome, loads of cool things, lots of stuff seemed to me to be very gift-​worthy. Just totally cool. I’ll be coming back here very often, both for gifts and for myself. Totally recommend venturing in here.

Sure there are nice and unique looking things that the store/​shop carries that you will not find anywhere like accessories, scarves, some clothing, sunglasses, home decorations, iphone cases, etc but they are EXPENSIVE. I mean come on $ 50 for a non designer sunglass that you can probably find for less than $ 5 out in the streets of SoHo or anywhere in Manhattan? Also, seemed like the Japanese owners and employees (YES they ARE Japanese and I can reassure you since I speak it) had a bit of a pretentious attitude (not towards me but in general) and not really willing to help nor interested in assisting their customers either. Although interesting products, doubt I will shop there

A great little shop boasting kitschy little gifts and vintage along with records… I just stumbled upon this shop while exiting the rear of Awoke Vintage (awesome little shop) I perused the vinyl and looked through his collection of vintage housewares. I wish I lived here because I would of picked up half of what he had. The selection is pretty decent and the prices are reasonable as well. YOu won’t be getting your wallet raped here.

Awesome jewelry.
Knick-​knacks galore. I was eying this awesome hour glass with colored sand.
Vintage feel with their heavy glass and ceramic mugs and decorative bowls.
Cards, sunglasses, records, vintage cameras, trinkets, and such.
A good place to pick up a little gift for a friend or even your self. I am personally in love with my $ 25 Baggu (
) duck-​bag purchase.

Super cute selection of adorable little things. I found some awesome vintage earrings and a shell key chain. I want everything in this store!

This store has some cute, interesting finds… and I did happen to purchase a ring here for $ 5 plus tax. However, I find that most of their vintage jewelry is way over-​priced. I don’t know that I’ll stop in here again.

This store is absolutely one of my favorite stores in Brooklyn. It’s surprising some people left bad reviews here as all the store staff (including the owner) has been very helpful and friendly to me and all my friends. I love how they like to support local musicians & designers/​artists.
Although some of their vintage selection might be a little more pricey than you could find at flea markets or a random thrift store, you don’t have to spend all day driving around and digging through piles of junk just to find a cute birthday gift.
I am not a rich person so I can’t afford to buy all the cool stuff they carry, but whenever I need to buy some cute gifts, this store is usually my first stop.

An eclectic little shop where I found a cute necklace for $ 30. The store sells a lot of random interesting stuff at decent prices.

What a joke. They buy things in thrift stores and sell 100 000 times more expensive. I saw the same exact owl figurine in Ugly Luggage for 8 bucks and they sell it for 35!!! Sick!

I see some Unilocalers have complained about the store owners. That’s weird to me. They were nothing but nice to my fiancé and I as we walked around the store with another friend of mine. They din’t care that we loitered in there playing with things for close to an hour.
I love that this place is just a mishmash of music (much of it local; on vinyl and CD), vintage audio gear, furniture, vintage jewelry and other random goodies in a place the size of a walk-​in closet.
I had just that morning decided I wanted to buy a tie clip. Sure enough, I walk out of MeMe with my very first tie clip. That’s good enough for me!

First of all, if I could put zero stars, I would. In fact, I created this Unilocal account just to voice my disgust toward particularly the man working in the store.
My brother and I were wandering around Williamsburg the other day, in and out of record shops, had some breakfast, you know the deal. So, we happened upon the Williamsburg Mini Mall from the back of the Tibetan store, and this place looked pretty cool. We looked around for a few minutes, and I found some really nice messenger bags – handmade, great attention to detail – obviously made by people that bike. The bag was out of my price range for the moment, so we started to work our way out of the store.
We made it a few steps outside, and I decided that I liked that particular bag so much that I’d go back in to ask the guy working if the store could do layaway. His first language was not English, so I tried to explain how it works as patiently as possible. He, however, proceeded to act like an elitist asshole, asking why I didn’t just put the purchase on a credit card and saying that the store next door has items for several thousand dollars, so the price of the bag was not that much. I mentioned to him that a lot of the kids who work, live and shop in Williamsburg are not rich, and that as a shop they should cater to all of their clientele, and he proceeded to explain to me that before they opened the store they researched the average income of the neighborhood and found it to be in the 6-​figure range. I myself am a student, and while layaway is not something I would normally ask about if something is out of my price range, I genuinely thought I would wear the bag out it would be so useful to me. The man claimed that he had never heard of a store providing layaway, however, I wouldn’t take his ignorance as an excuse for his elitist response to a simple question, especially considering the fact that a simple no would have sufficed as an answer. While I do understand that Williamsburg is changing, those changes are made possible by the students and artists who are also the baristas and shop attendants – the creative force behind the evolution of the neighborhood are the people who struggle, not the ones with 6-​figure salaries that work in Manhattan, not in Brooklyn, yet enjoy the positive changes such creative people have made possible. Furthermore, while such people may not find the price of the bag expensive and would spend it at the drop of a hat, more and more people are in my position in Brooklyn right now and have less disposable cash and as a vendor, the shop’s goal, assuming it is acting rationally as a cog in the proverbial capitalist wheel, should be to make a sale – and its not like I was asking for a discount. What it comes down to is that I tried to give him money for an item in the store that I genuinely like a lot and would get a lot of use out of, and he single-​handedly convinced me to never go in the store again.
Perhaps this is purely an example of a larger phenomenon – one you may call «gentrification”– however, I don’t think that excuses the man’s rudeness and ignorance. I asked a simple question that could have had a simple answer, even if the answer was no. Instead, I felt personally insulted and convinced to steer clear of Meme Antenna in the future.

This store has some very cute things, unfortunately, the owners are, hmmm.. . how do I put this diplomatically? Not nice? Unprofessional? Not very bright?
I bought a few hundred dollars worth of merchandise before Christmas. One was a wool, felted, scarf that cost about $ 70. I asked, as I purchased, if it could be exchanged if the recipient didn’t like it. The owner said yes. Well, it turned out my friend is allergic to wool and so I tried to return it. I didn’t even want cash back – just store credit. I knew I’d find other stuff to buy there as I’d already bought a bunch of jewelry and little bags.
The owner refused and held up a little gold-​framed sign that said «no returns.» This hadn’t been there when I bought the thing. I explained that she was ALLERGIC to the scarf, it hadn’t been worn, and that I only wanted store credit, which he’d assured me would be okay when I bought it. He just kept jabbing the stupid sign at me by way of reply.
There is really no arguing with a jerk who just keeps shoving a sign in your face and refuses to speak, so I’m stuck with a scarf I don’t want and out $ 70. I will NEVER shop there again.

Sort of okay cool store… some vintage audio equipment in the back that’s pretty cool… lots of little kitchey things… maybe some jewelry too… stuff for boys and girls. This is a store that I really want to like, but its just sort of only okay. I’ve seen everything they have somewhere else.
just ok… maybe good little place to buy some random gifts… One thing that sticks out it the chair they have out in front of the store with a sign on it that says «do not sit» — It wasn’t meant to be funny, but I laughed… well, maybe an internal chuckle of sorts.

I was out in Williamsburg on Sunday, and happened upon the mini-​mall. I haven’t been there in over a year. There were a few new stores, and this Meme Antenna store was one of them.
I found quite a few cool items in there. One I really liked were their Alchemy Goods messenger bags, made out of bicycle tire inner tubes. The rubber is softer than some of the other bags I’ve seen made with recycled rubber.
They also had some vinyl, and music, interesting and curious gifts, and other mish mash of stuff like these Audio Engine products, which provide wireless audio throughout your apartment to your computer, or other device. Cool stuff.