After more than three years, the store will re-open its third floor Rare Book Room to visitors. The space will be open June 24–26 from 10:00am–6:00pm, and will be occupied with bookseller ...
NEW YORK — Since it opened in 1927, the Strand bookstore has managed to survive by beating back the many challenges — soaring rents, book superstores, Amazon, e-books — that have doomed scores of ...
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, ...
An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link On a Wednesday morning this October, Uzodinma Okehi gathered with his coworkers on the first floor of the Strand Book Store, the beloved ...
GREENWICH VILLAGE, Manhattan (WABC) -- New York City on Tuesday granted landmark status to an iconic bookstore -- a designation the owner adamantly said she did not want. Nancy Bass Wyden, whose ...
New York's most iconic bookstore carries 2.5 million books at any given time, including rare, used, and new copies. You can find just about anything you're looking for in this store when it comes to ...
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 ...
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 City's Strand Bookstore restarted in-person events but will also keep some online. As events shifted online last year due to the pandemic, competition with Amazon intensified. But online ...