What are some big and exlcusive to new york city book stores?
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The Strand is in a world of its own. Miles of shelves lined with used books. They have so many books they rent them out by the shelf-foot to movie and TV productions that need them for library scenes and such.
For new books, St. Mark's Book Shop on the corner of 3rd Ave and East 9th St, one block north of St. Mark's Place. Fairly large, specializing in left-leaning political books and the arts, with a nice sized fiction department as well and lots of literary criticism. Some of the more popular counterculture authors have their books kept behind the information counter because they have been shoplifted so often.
If mysteries are your thing, check out Murder Ink, up on Broadway.
For a pretty comprehensive, though by no means complete, listing of independent bookstores in NYC:
http://www.papermag.com/guide/books/
It's sorted by category.
For new books, St. Mark's Book Shop on the corner of 3rd Ave and East 9th St, one block north of St. Mark's Place. Fairly large, specializing in left-leaning political books and the arts, with a nice sized fiction department as well and lots of literary criticism. Some of the more popular counterculture authors have their books kept behind the information counter because they have been shoplifted so often.
If mysteries are your thing, check out Murder Ink, up on Broadway.
For a pretty comprehensive, though by no means complete, listing of independent bookstores in NYC:
http://www.papermag.com/guide/books/
It's sorted by category.
