About Essex Card Shop & Gift

A card and gift counter at 47 Avenue A in the East Village, selling paper gift bags by the pack. The website is the back wall of the shop, put online without changing what is on it.

What the shop sells

Paper gift bags: kraft carriers in 50- and 100-packs, small colour assortments of 16 to 32, striped and iridescent party bags in 10- and 15-packs, and tissue sets of two and four. Thirteen lines are listed online, every one with its width, depth and height in inches and its pack count, exactly as printed by the maker.

Who buys here

Counters and stalls

Small retailers, bakeries and market sellers who standardise on one or two bag sizes and get through a hundred in a season.

Party hosts

Favour bags for a birthday or a shower, where sixteen different colours or one striped set is the point.

Anyone wrapping the unwrappable

Bottles, plants, soft things and things with corners go in a bag, not in paper. The notes explain which size takes what.

How an order is handled

  1. You pay at checkout. Nothing is taken by phone or email.
  2. The order is picked from the shelf and packed within 1–2 business days; the tracking number is emailed when the label scans.
  3. The carrier takes 3–7 business days to a US address. Orders of $39.00 or more ship free; below that the flat rate is $6.99.

If a pack is wrong or damaged, you have 30 days from delivery to send it back unused; the conditions are on the Refund and Returns Policy page.

The shop, in facts

Business name Essex Card Shop & Gift
Address 47 Avenue A, New York, NY 10009, United States
Phone (212) 228-7740
Email [email protected]
Opening hours Mon–Fri 09:00–21:00 · Sat–Sun 09:00–20:00
Sells Paper gift bags, kraft carriers and tissue sets
Ships to United States only
Currency US dollars (USD)
Payment Visa, Mastercard, American Express, WeChat Pay, Klarna, Afterpay
Returns 30 days, unused, original pack

Questions before you order? Write or call the shop — an order number makes everything faster.