While other small Park Slope bookstores drop like flies, the Community Bookstore on 7th Avenue between Carroll and Garfield is doing banner business, according to a report on Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn. Sales at the shop are up over 40 percent from the same period last year, when the store was facing a serious financial crisis. The crisis has been solved—at least temporarily—because of a novel (har) funding structure: 12 investors, including John Turturro, have put up cash to keep the Community Bookstore in business. The shop’s owner, Catherine Bohne, is ecstatic about the establishment’s new lease on life: It feels a bit like having been a Dodo, translated (oh, Bottom!) to a Phoenix.
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Photo by Kate Leonova for PropertyShark.