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Businesses across the city are closing their doors as coronavirus spreads, with all non-essential businesses expected to shut down. But bookstores are essential to many of us, and two Latina-owned bookstores in Brooklyn are finding ways to connect with their customers through bike deliveries and their online sales. Cafe con

Business

10 Brooklyn shops to buy Holiday gifts: BOOKS and ART

Even with the proliferation of digital everything, there is nothing like paging through a fresh book whether it be the latest Brooklyn author or a timeless children’s book. The gift of a new book(s) is always cherished and here in Brooklyn, we have some of the best bookstores

Arts & Culture

Southern Brooklyn’s Holdout Bookstores: Where To Get A Paperback Below Prospect Park

The internet age has caused significant damage to Brooklyn’s landscape of bookstores, and the borough’s southern portion is something of a literature desert today. In the past decade, southern Brooklyn has seen its only Borders and Barnes & Noble outlets, both in Kings Plaza, shutter. A few indy spots

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Southern Brooklyn’s Holdout Bookstores: Where To Get A Paperback Below Prospect Park

The internet age has caused significant damage to Brooklyn’s landscape of bookstores, and the borough’s southern portion is something of a literature desert today. In the past decade, southern Brooklyn has seen its only Borders and Barnes & Noble outlets, both in Kings Plaza, shutter. A few indy spots

Bookstores

Greenlight Bookstore Is Opening Second Location, In Prospect-Lefferts Gardens

Bookstores are not dead! Not only is Amazon.com opening a physical bookstore [http://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-opens-first-bricks-and-mortar-bookstore-at-u-village/] in Washington state (oh, the irony), but independent booksellers like Fort Greene’s Greenlight Bookstore [http://www.greenlightbookstore.com/] are also thriving enough to expand –opening a second location, this

Bookstores

Ugly Duckling Presse Opens Third Factory, A Pop-Up Bookstore

Third Factory [http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/news/third-factory-a-temporary-storefront/], a temporary bookstore, workspace, and print gallery from Ugly Duckling Presse [http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/] recently opened in the storefront of the Old American Can Factory at 242 3rd Street, between 3rd and 4th Avenues. In addition to selling books, chapbooks, letterpress

Bookstores

powerHouse on 8th Opening Next Week

Though powerHouse Arena [http://powerhousearena.com/] suffered some serious hurricane damage [http://sandyhatesbooks.tumblr.com/] at their DUMBO location, they have managed to reopen. And they’ve got some more happy news: powerHouse on 8th [http://www.powerhouseon8th.com/], their new Park Slope bookstore, will be opening on Wednesday, November

Bookstores

Boulevard Books And Cafe Named Among City’s Best!

It’s not first place, but it’s still up there. Since we covered it’s first birthday in May [/happy-first-anniversary-to-boulevard-books/], Boulevard Books and Cafe (7518 13th Avenue between 76th Street and Bay Ridge Parkway) has been spotlighted in a New York Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/best-ny-s-a-book-store-sheepshead-bay-named-best-independent-bookstore-york-article-1.