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116 E 59th St, New York, NY. New York City's oldest independent bookstore is Argorsy, founded in 1925. The shop, located in a six-floor townhouse in Midtown, is in its third generation of family ...
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 ...
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]
Bluestockings is a radical bookstore, café, and activist center located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City.It started as a volunteer-supported and collectively owned bookstore; and is currently a worker-owned bookstore with mutual aid offerings/free store.
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Barnes & Noble began in 1886 as a bookstore called Arthur Hinds & Company, [9] located at 4 Cooper Institute in the Cooper Union Building in New York City. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] In the fall of 1886, Gilbert Clifford Noble from Westfield, Massachusetts , who had graduated from Harvard College earlier that year, [ 13 ] was hired to work there as a ...
In 1884, Arthur Brentano opened the Chicago branch of his family's New York bookstore at 101 State street. [20] By 1930, Brentano's was the largest bookstore chain in the United States with 10 locations, 5 of which were outside of New York City, plus 2 additional affiliated locations in Europe. Unfortunately, Brentano's expanded too fast just ...
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]