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Here’s A Book Store

Owner Sylvia Levy says her shop is both “the best book store and the worst in the neighborhood” because it’s the only one left. Since 1975, the bookstore has stocked new and used books for Sheepshead Bay locals catering to the over half-dozen nearby yeshivas and carrying another half a million books. A family-run business, the Levys provide a valet service delivering books to drivers on busy Coney Island Avenue.

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Freebird Books

Freebird Books was established in 2004 by Samantha Citrin and Rachel London, and is now owned by local resident, Peter Miller. The shop is located on the Brooklyn waterfront near the docks and container port. Though the hours are limited to the weekend, Freebird still sponsors community-oriented events such as readings, book clubs, and workshops. It is a temporary home to Books Through Bars, a non-profit which works to provide quality reading material to prisoners nationwide.

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Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop

Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop is New York’s only all poetry bookstore. They sell poetry books and chapbooks, celebrate art, creativity, performance, and the handmade, and are a partner to many small presses local to Brooklyn, around the country, and worldwide. The shop is a place to read, to hear poets read, to meet poets and readers, and to join a community.

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BookMark Shoppe

The BookMark Shoppe was originally located in Dyker Heights before moving to the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn. Owned and operated by Christine Freglette and Bina Valenzano, who have been friends since junior high school, this independent bookstore specializes in fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books. Next day orders are available at no extra charge.

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powerHouse Arena

The powerHouse Arena—a self-proclaimed laboratory for creative thought—is a gallery, boutique, bookstore, performance, and events space located in Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood. The space is home to the art book publisher, powerHouse Books, and hosts book launch parties, readings and signings, and conversations for a host of voices in contemporary literature. The store carries a curated selection of design and photography books, along with a discriminating selection of nonfiction, lifestyle, illustrated, and New York-themed books.

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Spoonbill & Sugartown, Booksellers

Spoonbill & Sugartown, Booksellers was established in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg in 1999. The shop specializes in used, rare, and new books on contemporary art, architecture, and various design fields with an emphasis on imported or hard-to-find selections. Thousands of books are hand-picked for clientele from the eclectic collection of philosophy, literature, cinema, and children’s books.

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Greenlight Bookstore: Fort Greene

In 2009, Rebecca Fitting and Jessica Stockon Bagnulo opened Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, with the support of the Fort Greene Association and a Community Lender Program. This independent bookstore carries a robust selection in a wide variety of genres, and has a full calendar of events for adults and children.

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Pete’s Tavern

Pete’s Tavern, the oldest continuously operating tavern in New York City (founded in 1864), was famously the refuge of short story writer O. Henry (aka William Sydney Porter). He supposedly wrote “The Gift of the Magi” in a booth at Pete’s in 1905, back when the tavern was known as Healy’s.

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Westsider Rare and Used Books

Westsider Rare and Used Books is located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and buys, sells, and trades rare and used books. The shop specializes in fiction and literature, modern first editions, art, illustrated books, graphic design, children's books, architecture, antiques and collectibles, and Asian and African American rock and roll LPs and CDs. Westsider was featured in the John Turturro film Fading Gigolo.

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