Welcome to *Spotlight on NYC Bookstores* This blog is an evolving directory of bookstores in the five boroughs of New York.
It was created as a guide for those visiting Manhattan in May 2010 for Book Expo America, Book Blogger Con, or Book Week.
Please use it as a self-guided tour to bookish delights in the Big Apple!
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Book Culture – on Broadway
In the fall of 2009 Book Culture opened a second shop on Broadway at 114th Street. There has been an independent bookstore on this corner for over fifty years. Now, with the strong support of the Morningside Heights community and the faculty and administration of Columbia University we are carrying on [...]
Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks
“Welcome to my shop! Get comfortable and stay as long as you like—you’re sure to find something you love! It may be a book your grandmother had, or one you never knew existed, something by a favorite author, or just something that catches your eye. If you’re not able to visit, give me [...]
Rizzoli Bookstore
“For more than forty years, Rizzoli Bookstore has been an unsurpassed source for superb books on visual topics, foreign language books and periodicals, and an eclectic assortment of music. The store now occupies three floors of a historic townhouse at 31 West 57th Street, a setting filled with nooks and crannies that invite our [...]
Jim Hanley’s Universe Ltd.
“Since 1985, Jim Hanley’s Universe has been one of America’s best and most progressive comic book stores. At Jim Hanley’s Universe, we carry mainstream comics from DC and Marvel as well as Kids Comics, International Comics, Manga, Graphic Novels, Small Press, Indie, and Mini Comics. We have an extensive back issue collection [...]
Hue-Man Bookstore and Café
“The Largest African-American Bookstore in the Nation”
2319 Frederick Douglass Blvd (125 and 8th Avenue)
New York, NY 10027-3612
phone: 212-665-7400
fax: 212-665-1071
Monday – Saturday: 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Sunday: 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
www.huemanbookstore.com
Facebook fan page for Hue-Man Bookstore and Café
twitter: @huemanBooks
Directions via public transportation:
B/D/C: 1 block
2/3: 2 blocks
Drama Book Shop
“The foremost international resource for plays, books and other materials relating to theatre, film, video and the performing arts.”
250 West 40th Street (between Broadway and 8th)
New York, NY 10018-1511
phone: 212-944-0595
fax: 212-730-8739
Monday—Saturday: 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Thursday: 11:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m., complimentary wine & cheese begining at 6:00 p.m.
www.dramabookshop.com
Facebook fan page for Drama Book [...]
Bluestockings
“Bluestockings is a bookstore, fair trade cafe, and activist center in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
We carry over 6000 titles on topics such as queer and gender studies, global capitalism, feminism, police and prisons, democracy studies, and black liberation. You can also find some good ‘ole smutty fiction. We also carry magazines, zines, journals, [...]
Bank Street Bookstore
Part of Bank Street College, a small institution dedicated to improving children’s education, Bank Street Bookstore is “New York’s best bookstore for and about children.”
610 West 112th Street (at Broadway)
New York, NY 10025-1898
phone: 212-678-1654
Monday-Wednesday: 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Thursday: 10 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Friday-Saturday: 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Sunday: 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
http://www.bankstreetbooks.com/
Directions via public [...]
The Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore
“Our shop is conveniently located at 35th Street and Madison Avenue in Manhattan. We specialize in vintage travel books, exploration and discovery and carry books on places all around the world. Among our collection you will find: The World’s largest Baedeker collection, Rare Maps, A & C Black, WPA Guides and a [...]
McNally Jackson
“Welcome to McNally Jackson Books, (est. December 2004), a big, beautiful independent bookstore in New York’s Nolita, where Soho, Noho, the Lower East Side, Chinatown, and Little Italy meet (it’s also a stone’s throw from Tribeca, the East Village, West Village, and Wall Street…. Not to mention a quick subway ride from Brooklyn, a [...]
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