Forbidden Planet

In a city where things change constantly, there's one place that has managed to hang on for over forty years -- the comics and pop culture store Forbidden Planet.

Located between 12th and 13th streets on Broadway, it's one of the last old school comic book stores left in NYC. It was opened in 1981, a spinoff location of a similar store in London, but it quickly became a much beloved, NYC landmark, a place where teenagers and comic geeks congregated to get the latest installments of their favorite series, meet and get autographs from their favorite cartoonists, and meet similar people.

I recently took my kid who loves graphic arts and comics and she liked it. Although the current Forbidden Planet is much smaller than it used to be, I'm so thankful that it's still there -- and that NYC kids like mine can still get lost into a world of fantasy.