NFL legend Tom Brady is bringing his trading card and collectible business to Brooklyn. <\/p>\n
The new \u201cCardVault by Tom Brady\u201d store held its soft launch this week at 80 Flatbush Ave. in Downtown Brooklyn. It is the national retailer\u2019s 13th location and its second in New York City.<\/p>\n
The shop features a wide range of trading cards, from sports to Pok\u00e9mon. Customer Guy Fox said the store taps into a childhood passion.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very excited about it,\u201d Fox said. \u201cIt\u2019s something I used to do as a child.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fox visited the store Thursday, hoping to sell his stack of sports cards. He said collectibles are more than just paper.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese papers are worth something,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re almost a type of currency in itself.\u201d<\/p>\n
The NYPD said that in October, a man stole nearly $10,000 worth of merchandise from CardVault\u2019s Manhattan location.<\/p>\n
Chris Costa, co-founder and managing partner, said items can range from 50 cents to $500,000, and the company invests in security features including locked display cases.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s part of the world that we live in, not just as a card shop but as a retailer,\u201d Costa said. \u201cWhen you operate in the world of retail, [shoplifting is] something that you have to plan for, prepare for; and luckily and thankfully, we\u2019re both planned and prepped for both.\u201d<\/p>\n
The store\u2019s official grand opening is scheduled for Tuesday, March 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL legend Tom Brady is bringing his trading card and collectible business to Brooklyn. The new \u201cCardVault by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,66755],"class_list":["post-161882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-trading-cards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}