Along with a vast number of libraries and museums, New York City is know for its wealth of bookstores. The following physical bookstores in NYC as well as online bookstores are selected or recommended from some reliable online articles, including VOGUE Magazine, amNY.com, Time Out and CBS New York. The information of those bookstores is based on their official websites. Click on "more" for store's location, opening hours and contact information.
According to Stephanie Geier, during 1890s to 1960s, 4th Avenue between Union Square and Astor Place where was dominated by secondhand bookstores and was called "Book Row." However, these bookstores either relocated or closed by the 1960s due to the rising rent prises in the 1950s and the rise of large retail bookstores. This article contains a lively narrative with various resources and external links, such as plenty of historical pictures from New York Public Library Digital Collections and New York Historical Society as well as some recommended books, provides readers an overall perception of the history of New York City’s book raw. To see the whole story here (4th Avenue: The History of NYC's Lost "Book Row"). More information below.
Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 10th Street (East)
Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library. (1938). Manhattan: 4th Avenue - 10th Street (East)
John Wanamakers's, Fourth Avenue and 9th Street, Manhattan
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. (1936). John Wanamakers's, Fourth Avenue and 9th Street, Manhattan
Manhattan: 13th Street - 4th Avenue
Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library. (1933 - 1929). Manhattan: 13th Street - 4th Avenue
by Ted Striphas
ISBN: 9780231148146
Publication Date: 2009-04-08
With examples from trade journals, news media, films, advertisements, and a host of other commercial and scholarly materials, Striphas tells a story of modern publishing that proves, even in a rapidly digitizing world, books are anything but dead...
by Leona Rostenberg; Madeleine B. Stern
ISBN: 9781584560746
Publication Date: 2002-02-01
This series of historical essays survey the past five centuries of printing and publishing and their technical achivements. Beginning with Gutenberg's 15th-century printing revolution to today's high-tech e-books, the authors present a calvacade of new insights into publishing history.
by Marvin Mondlin; Roy Meador
ISBN: 9780786713059
Publication Date: 2003-12-14
There, for nearly eight decades, from the 1890s to the 1960s, thrived the New York Booksellers' Row, or, more commonly, Book Row... Rising rents, street crime, urban redevelopment, television are many of the reasons for the demise of Book Row, but in this volume, based on interviews with dozens of the people who bought, sold, and collected there, it lives again.
by Grace Jasmine
ISBN: 9781894638760
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Without a doubt this is the single greatest resource an aspiring bookstore owner can have. An absolute must read! --Rick Segel, author Retail Business Kit For Dummies.
by Madeleine B. Stern
ISBN: 0313247293
Publication Date: 1985-06-26
“This is not a history of antiquarian bookselling but rather a summary, from the secondary literature, of facts and "flavor" about individual antiquarian booksellers in nine major American cities, plus briefer accounts of "cities to the south" and five "lone stars." ...
