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It <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/15/nyregion/thecity/15book.html" target="_blank" >eulogizes those that have faded</a > and celebrates when new ventures are launched. And while the historic <a href="https://untappedcities.com/2015/08/26/4th-avenue-the-history-of-nycs-book-row/" target="_blank" >Book Row may have passed away in the 80s</a >, there are still many indie bookstores dotting the map, across all five boroughs. Here, I have attempted to collect all of the currently-open general-interest independent booksellers in NYC. Any store with regular-ish hours (excluding religious booksellers and appointment-only rare book sellers) is included. </p> <p> While Manhattan and Brooklyn still lead the pack, Queens has a respectable number of stores, and all five boroughs are represented, with the Bronx and Staten Island both hosting independent stores. Lower Manhattan has the highest density of booksellers, however. </p> <p> The listings here are kept up-to-date to the best of my ability; however, I make no promises about either the accuracy or reliability of the information. If you spot an error, or I've missed a shop, please let me know by <a href="mailto:delta.mu.alpha@gmail.com" target="_blank">email</a> or <a href="https://www.twitter.com/alazyreader" target="_blank" >twitter</a >. Orignally based on the "<a href="https://github.com/jlord/hack-spots" target="_blank" >Hack Spots</a >" website by <a href="https://www.twitter.com/jllord" target="_blank">@jllord</a> (although I don't believe any of the actual underlying code still survives at this point). </p> <p> There are currently <span id="storeCount">97</span> stores indexed on this page. </p> </div> <div id="selected"></div> </div> <div class="clearfix"></div> <div class="container"> <div id="Stores"> <table> <tbody> <tr> <th class="tHeader">Name</th> <th class="tHeader">Address</th> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">192 Books</td> <td>192 10th Ave, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Aeon Bookstore</td> <td>151 East Broadway, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Alabaster Bookshop</td> <td>122 4th Ave, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Albertine Books</td> <td>972 Fifth Ave, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Archestratus</td> <td>160 Huron St, Brooklyn</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Argosy Books</td> <td>116 East 59th St, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Astoria Bookshop</td> <td>31-29 31st St, Astoria</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Avoid The Day Bookstore & Cafe</td> <td>99-04 A Rockaway Beach Blvd, Rockaway Park</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop</td> <td>126A Front St, Brooklyn</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Better Read Than Dead</td> <td>867 Broadway, Brooklyn</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Bluestockings</td> <td>172 Allen Street, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks</td> <td>28 East 2nd St, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Book Club Bar</td> <td>197 E 3rd St, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Book Culture</td> <td>536 W 112th St, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Book Culture LIC</td> <td>26-09 Jackson Ave, Queens</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Book Culture on Broadway</td> <td>2915 Broadway, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Book Thug Nation</td> <td>100 North 3rd St, Brooklyn</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Bookmarc</td> <td>400 Bleecker St, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">BookMark Shoppe</td> <td>8415 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Bookoff</td> <td>49 W 45nd St, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Books Are Magic</td> <td>225 Smith St, Brooklyn</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Books Of Wonder</td> <td>42 West 17th St, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Books Of Wonder (Upper West Side)</td> <td>217 West 84th St, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Boulevard Books</td> <td>7518 13th Ave, Brooklyn</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Bravo's Book Nook</td> <td>115 MacDougal St, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Cafe con Libros</td> <td>724 Prospect Place, Brooklyn</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Catland</td> <td>987 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Chartwell Booksellers</td> <td>55 E 52nd St, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Civil Service Book Shop</td> <td>34 Carmine St, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Codex Books</td> <td>1 Bleecker St, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Community Bookstore</td> <td>143 7th Ave, Brooklyn</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Cups and Books</td> <td>2024 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Dashwood Books</td> <td>33 Bond St, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Desert Island Comics</td> <td>540 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">East Village Books</td> <td>99 St. Mark's Place, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name"> Every Thing Goes Book Cafe and Neighborhood Stage </td> <td>208 Bay St, Staten Island</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Freebird Books</td> <td>123 Columbia St, Brooklyn</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Greenlight Bookstore</td> <td>686 Fulton St, Brooklyn</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name"> Greenlight Bookstore (Prospect Lefferts Gardens) </td> <td>632 Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Here's A Book Store</td> <td>1964 Coney Island Ave, Brooklyn</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Housing Works Bookstore Café</td> <td>126 Crosby St, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Human Relations Books</td> <td>1067 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Idlewild Books</td> <td>170 7th Avenue S, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">James Cummins Bookseller</td> <td>699 Madison Ave, 7th Floor, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Jewel City Books</td> <td>658 Franklin Ave, Brooklyn</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Joanne Hendricks Cookbooks</td> <td>488 Greenwich St, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Karma Bookstore</td> <td>136 East Third St, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Kew & Willow Books</td> <td>81-63 Lefferts Boulevard, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Kinokunya</td> <td>1073 Avenue of the Americas, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Kitchen Arts & Letters</td> <td>1435 Lexington Ave, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Logos Bookstore</td> <td>1575 York Ave, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Mast Books</td> <td>72 Avenue A, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">McNally Jackson Books</td> <td>52 Prince St, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">McNally Jackson Books City Point</td> <td>445 Albee Square W, Unit G112, Brooklyn</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">McNally Jackson Books Seaport</td> <td>4 Fulton St, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">McNally Jackson Books Williamsburg</td> <td>76 North 4th St, Brooklyn</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Melville House Publishers</td> <td>46 John St, Brooklyn</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Mercer Street Books & Records</td> <td>206 Mercer St, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Mil Mundos Books</td> <td>323 Linden St, Brooklyn</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Molasses Books</td> <td>770 Hart St, Brooklyn</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Namaste Bookshop</td> <td>2 W 14th St, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Pillow-Cat Books</td> <td>328 East 9th St, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Posman Books Chelsea Market</td> <td>75 9th Avenue, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Posman Books Rockefeller Center</td> <td>30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">PowerHouse Arena</td> <td>28 Adams St, Brooklyn</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">PowerHouse on 8th</td> <td>1111 8th Ave, Brooklyn</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Printed Matter</td> <td>231 11th Ave, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Printed Matter St. Marks</td> <td>38 St. Marks Pl, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Quest Bookshop</td> <td>240 E 53rd St, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Respect For Life Books-N-Things</td> <td>537 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Revolution Books</td> <td>437 Malcolm X Blvd, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Rizzoli Bookstore</td> <td>1133 Broadway, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Shakespeare & Company</td> <td>939 Lexington Ave, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name"> Shakespeare & Company (Upper West Side) </td> <td>2020 Broadway, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Sister's Uptown Bookstore</td> <td>1942 Amsterdam Ave, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Spoonbill & Sugartown, Booksellers</td> <td>218 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Standards Manual</td> <td>212 Franklin Street, Brooklyn</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Strand Bookstore</td> <td>828 Broadway, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Sweet Pickle Books</td> <td>47 Orchard St, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Terrace Books</td> <td>242 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">The Austin Book Shop</td> <td>104-29 Jamaica Ave, Richmond Hill</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">The Book Cellar</td> <td>1465 York Ave, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">The Center for Fiction</td> <td>15 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">The Corner Bookstore</td> <td>1313 Madison Ave, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">The Lit. Bar</td> <td>131 Alexander Ave, Bronx</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">The Mysterious Bookshop</td> <td>58 Warren St, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Three Lives & Company</td> <td>238 West 10th St, New York</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Topos Bookstore Cafe</td> <td>788 Woodward Ave, Brooklyn</td> </tr> <tr id="" class="spotRow"> <td class="name">Turn The Page... 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