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Shuttering BookCourt Space Sold For $13.6 Million; One Developer In Deal Terminated Leases Of Gowanus Artist Studios

Image via BookCourt/ Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/bookcourt/photos/a.10150697384896048.389027.11680301047/10152831557866048/?type=3&theater]> ‘Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been misplaced or used as kindling by my subtenant.

Arts & Culture

After 35 Years, Cobble Hill’s Cherished BookCourt To Close; Author Emma Straub Announces Possible Neighborhood Replacement

Image via Shinya Suzuki / flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/shinyasuzuki/17867297140]The independent bookstore institution BookCourt [http://www.bookcourt.com/] will be closing its doors at the end of this month. BookCourt owners Mary Gannett and Henry Zook released a statement this morning, writing that “after 35 years of