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Bluestockings is a radical bookstore, café, and activist center located in 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.
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 ]
The original Samuel Weiser Bookstore was started in New York City's famous "Book Row" area by Samuel Weiser in 1926.It moved several times within the "Book Row" before relocating to 117 4th Avenue, where it remained for a number of decades. [2]
Edward F. Caldwell, a portrait painter originally from Waterville, New York, became part of an active community of designers in New York City during the early 1880s.By the end of that decade and into the 1890s, Caldwell worked for, and later became chief designer and vice president of, the Archer & Pancoast Manufacturing Company of New York, top designers of gas lighting fixtures.
McNally Jackson Books is an independent bookstore based in Manhattan, New York, owned and operated since 2004 by Sarah McNally, a former editor at Basic Books and the child of Holly and Paul McNally, the founders of the Canadian McNally Robinson Booksellers chain. [1]
Coliseum Books was an independent bookstore that opened in 1974 on the northwest corner of 57th Street and Broadway, near Columbus Circle in the New York City borough of Manhattan. After initially closing in 2002, following a series of financial difficulties and in part due to the increased real estate prices in that part of Manhattan, it ...
City Lights was the inspiration of Peter D. Martin, who relocated from New York City to San Francisco in the 1940s to teach sociology.He first used City Lights, in homage to the Chaplin film, in 1952 as the title of a magazine, publishing early work by such key Bay Area writers as Philip Lamantia, Pauline Kael, Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, and Ferlinghetti himself, as "Lawrence Ferling".
Iconic Wise Men Fish Here sign, (2007). The Gotham Book Mart was a famous Midtown Manhattan bookstore and cultural landmark that operated from 1920 to 2007. The business was located first in a small basement space on West 45th Street near the Theater District, then moved to 51 West 47th Street, then spent many years at 41 West 47th Street within the Diamond District in Manhattan, [1] New York ...