Beach Bookstore
The Strand Bookstore is an independent family owned bookstore selling used books on Broadway , New York City, founded in 1927 by Benjamin Bass . With around 5,100 m², it is one of the world's largest bookshops and the largest in New York.
The founder's son, Fred Bass, took over the shop in 1956 and moved it to its current location a little later, on Broadway and East 12th Street. Today his daughter Nancy, married to the US Senator Ron Wyden (Democrats), is a co-owner. The official advertising slogan is "18 Miles Of Books". At the end of 2011, the Strand Bookstore, which has 250 employees, offered more than 2.5 million books on three floors. There is also a kiosk in Central Park and the Strand Book Annex , which opened in the 1980s and is now located in the Financial District . The latter was closed again in 2008.
The sales range includes u. a. also older and more expensive books on William Shakespeare , a first edition by Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Toms Hut and books with original lithographs by Marc Chagall . The writer David Markson bequeathed his private library to the bookstore in 2010.
Well-known rock musicians worked in the bookstore such as Patti Smith and Tom Verlaine . The rock band Steely Dan took the Strand Bookstore in one of their lyrics ("What A Shame About Me"). The store received additional reception in the films Julie & Julia and Remember Me - Live the Moment, as well as in the short story by Joyce Carol Oates “Three Girls”.
literature
- Rowan Moore Gerety: Beach . In: Kenneth T. Jackson (Ed.): The Encyclopedia of New York City . 2nd edition, Yale University Press, New York City 2010.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Donald Newlove: The Beast in The Strand Book Store . In: New York Magazine , August 1/1977, New York, pp. 45-47.
Coordinates: 40 ° 43'59.6 " N , 73 ° 59'26.4" W.