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28 E 2nd St, New York, NY. Bonnie Slotnick founded her eponymous bookstore in 1997, focusing exclusively on out-of-print and antiquarian cookbooks.
Shelves on 1st floor. The Strand is a family-owned business with more than 230 employees. [5] Many notable New York City artists have worked at the store, including rock musicians of the 1970s: Patti Smith – who claimed not to have liked the experience because it "wasn't very friendly" [6] – and Tom Verlaine, [7] who was fond of the discount book carts sitting outside the store. [8]
The Argosy Book Store is New York City's oldest independent bookstore.Located at 116 East 59th Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues in Midtown Manhattan, it occupies an entire six-story townhouse with various sales floors specializing in first editions, Americana, leather bindings, antique maps and prints, and autographs. [1]
Bluestockings opened in 1999 as a feminist bookstore. [11] Founder Kathryn Welsh cited a lack of women's bookstores in New York among her reasons for founding Bluestockings. She started the store with the help of an anonymous investment of $50,000, [12] and at the start, only women could be members of the collective.
Below we list some of the most remarkable and memorable bookstores from around the world, with a few words about what makes each special — beyond, of course, the books. 27 Most Beautiful ...
Rizzoli Bookstore is a general interest bookstore, located in the St. James Building, 1133 Broadway in New York City, that primarily specializes in illustrated books and foreign language titles. Its previous location at 31 W. 57th Street was noted for its beautiful interior. After Rizzoli's lease expired in April 2014, the 57th St. building was ...
Quimby's Bookstore is an independent bookstore located at 1854 W. North Ave in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. [1] In addition to the main location, Quimby's NYC opened in 2017 at 536 Metropolitan Ave in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York .
Albertine Books. Albertine Books is a bookstore in Manhattan, New York. Opened in 2014, it offers the largest collection in the United States of French-language books and translations from French into English. [1] [2] It is located in the Payne Whitney House at 972 Fifth Avenue, between 78th and 79th Streets.