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Visit Greenwich Village&#;s bookbook in the next month, before the store closes
A long-standing Greenwich Village bookshop will close its doors next month, though its beloved bibliophile owners will continue to sell books at pop-up locations throughout the city.
Carolyn Epstein opened Biography Bookshop with her husband Charles Mullin in The store later moved to its current home on Bleecker Street, near Morton Street, and changed its name to bookbook.
Epstein said the pair decided to end their brick-and-mortar run after landlords raised the rent on their store at Bleecker St.
"I’m 70 and my husband will be 70 next year, and we just want to move on a little bit, and do other things," she said.
The store will shut down on May 15, and Epstein said there will be more information about the final weeks. Bookbook was beloved by community members and patrons for its wall-to-wall shelves of works, from children&#;s novels to mysteries, and its smaller display of other books under its outdoor awning.
Epstein said that she was appreciative of all the support through the years, and said it was their mission to be a more down-to-earth and welcoming alternative
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The Village: A History of Greenwich Village
Strausbaugh, John
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New York, NY: Ecco/ HarperCollins, First Edition. Hardcover. "The most famous neighborhood in the world, Greenwich Village has been home to outcasts of diverse persuasions- from "half-free" Africans to working-class immigrants, from artists to politicians- for almost four hundred years. In his magisterial new book, cultural commentator John Strausbaugh weaves an absorbing narrative history of the Village, a tapestry that unrolls from its origins as a rural frontier of New Amsterdam in the s through its long reign as the Left Bank of America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from its seat as the epicenter of the gay rights movement to its current status as an affluent bedroom community and tourist magnet." (from front flap) A sweeping history of Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan, the fabled kaleidescopic neighborhood among the most culturally, artistically, musically & literarily significant in the world. For our Beat-&-Beyond Third Mind purposes, the key figures of the Beat Generation, including William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Huncke & Jack Kerouac, resided in or frequented the Village at the height of their creativity; their lives & works there