The Red Doors of West 10th Street: Inside Three Lives & Company, New York’s Most Literary Bookstore
Since 1978, a small bookshop with red double doors has stood on the corner of West 10th Street and Waverly Place in the West Village. Three Lives & Company is named for a Gertrude Stein novel, has hosted readings by Toni Morrison and Raymond Carver, and is one of the best bookstores in New York City. Here’s why it matters.
Westsider Rare & Used Books: Inside the Narrow Upper West Side Shop That Has Been Selling Strangers Their Next Favorite Novel Since 1971
A tall, narrow, beautifully cluttered used bookstore on Broadway near 80th Street, open seven days a week since 1971. Here is why book people make the pilgrimage.
Albertine: The Bookstore Hiding Inside a Stanford White Mansion on Fifth Avenue
Most of New York walks past 972 Fifth Avenue without ever realizing one of the city’s most beautiful bookstores is on the other side of the door. Step into the Payne Whitney Mansion and look up: there is a ceiling of stars waiting for you.
Argosy Book Store: Inside New York’s Oldest Independent Bookstore, Still Run by the Family That Started It in 1925
Six floors. Three sisters. One hundred years. A walking tour through Argosy Book Store on East 59th — the last surviving family-owned antiquarian dealer in Manhattan and the closest thing to old Book Row still standing.
Yu and Me Books: How a 28-Year-Old Built Chinatown’s Warmest Bookstore — And Why New Yorkers Rebuilt It With Her
On a quiet block of Mulberry Street in Chinatown, behind a glass storefront lit like a living room, Lucy Yu has built the kind of bookstore people travel across boroughs to sit in. This is its story — and how the city saved it.