NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- A New York bookstore has survived the Great Depression and two World Wars, but are now in danger of going out of business due to the pandemic. A personal plea from famed ...
You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. On a Wednesday morning this October, Uzodinma Okehi gathered with his coworkers on the first floor of ...
EAST VILLAGE, Manhattan — A New York institution called out to its fans, and fans of the written word, Friday, begging to help keep its doors open. The Strand bookstore, the 93-year-old bookshop in ...
Strand Book Store has announced participation in the 10th Anniversary of Independent Bookstore Day. Independent Bookstores play a unique and vital role in our communities, a place to gather, to learn, ...
When Robyn Smith started working as a bookseller at the Strand in 2019, she felt like she’d found her people. She loved having co-workers who were almost too passionate about books. She loved how, ...
The Strand Turns 80 The Strand Bookstore turns 80 tomorrow, all eighteen miles of it. It was founded by Ben Bass on what was then Book Row — Fourth Avenue, from Astor Place to Union Square, was home ...
NEW YORK — Fred Bass, who transformed his father’s small used-book store, the Strand, into a mammoth Manhattan emporium with the slogan “18 Miles of Books,” died Wednesday at his home in Manhattan. He ...