it must be kinda hard running a shop w/ the internet running around,
but maybe these:
for ny: they say that dominic fernow from prurient has a nice basement:
http://hospitalproductions.com/
for belgium: carlo steegen always has cold drinks and all at
http://www.freaksendfuture.com/
+the staalplaat shop in amsterdam, the netherlands was the greatest and
most beautiful shop that I've been into.
but they closed/moved to berlin
(k-raa-k)3 used to be a distro and had a nice record cupboard in their
hq www.kraak.net