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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]
In May 2014, the store announced plans to move from 31 Third Avenue to a smaller space at 126 E. Third St; their new landlord was the New York City Housing Authority. [10] Though Clouds Architectural Office was commissioned to design its new space, [11] declining sales over the years made the store unable to afford the rent at the new location.
The W New York Union Square is a 270-room, 21-story boutique hotel operated by W Hotels at the northeast corner of Park Avenue South and 17th Street, across from Union Square in Manhattan, New York. Originally known as the Germania Life Insurance Company Building , it was designed by Albert D'Oench and Joseph W. Yost and built in 1911 in the ...
The Rialto, New York City's first commercial theater district, was located in and around Union Square beginning in the 1870s. It was named after Venice's Rialto, a commercial district. [26] [27] [28] The first facility to open within the Union Square Rialto was the Academy of Music, which opened at Irving Place in 1854. [6]
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.
English: Barnes & Noble's Union Square store in Manhattan, New York City, originally The Century Building, at 33 East 17th Street between Park Avenue South and Broadway on Union Square in Manhattan, New York City, was designed by William Schickel in the Queen Anne style and built in 1880-1881 as the headquarters of the Century Publishing Company, which published the popular The Century ...
S. Klein On The Square, or simply S. Klein, was a popular-priced department store chain based in New York City. The flagship stores (a main building and a women's fashion building) were located along Union Square East in Manhattan ; this location would combine with the 1920s idiomatic catch phrase "on the square" (meaning "honest and straight ...
The Decker Building (also the Union Building) is a commercial building located at 33 Union Square West in Manhattan, New York City. The structure was completed in 1892 for the Decker Brothers piano company, and designed by John H. Edelmann. [2] From 1968 to 1973, it served as the location of the artist Andy Warhol's studio, The Factory. [3]