Slope Losing Another Small Bookstore
These are dark days for indie-minded Park Slope bibliophiles. 7th Ave. Books closed a few months ago, and just last week the Times reported that the Community Bookstore had fallen on hard times. Now comes word that another 7th Avenue bookseller is packing it in: Park Slope Books is consolidating operations with its sister store…
These are dark days for indie-minded Park Slope bibliophiles. 7th Ave. Books closed a few months ago, and just last week the Times reported that the Community Bookstore had fallen on hard times. Now comes word that another 7th Avenue bookseller is packing it in: Park Slope Books is consolidating operations with its sister store on Montague Street, Heights Books, and closing its Slope location this spring. Sad news for Slopers who like having options beyond Barnes & Noble. GMAP
Park Slope is a victim of its own success. Rising rents on 7th Ave as well as 5th will, over time, drive out every single business that makes the neighborhood great. It’s not the fault of residents of the “new Park Slope”. It’s the greed of the landlords.
park slope has the nicest shops and restaurants anywhere in brooklyn. Who can deny this?
Wow, are some of you actually very articulate 5 year olds? I can’t believe the whiny comments I’ve just read. They may as well have read like this, “I want it now, why can’t I get anything I want right now? I’ll positively die if I have to wait one second more to get what I want! Why can’t small independent bookstores cater to my every whim? Why can’t they just get more inventory and more space? They should have a cafe, a children’s play center, a reading room, a ferris wheel, water park, and anything I may desire from second to second.”
Don’t want another realtor or cell phone store opening up? Too bad because I sincerely doubt you’ll get the business you truly want. Have any of you actually thought to ask store owners to carry products you’re interested in? It’s not difficult and they may be more receptive than you think. I buy all my books from the Community Bookstore because I like them a million times more than B&N. Any time they didn’t have a book I wanted, they ordered it for me. So I had to wait a few days for it, it hasn’t killed me yet. Heaven forbid people have to actually wait for something.
Give it a few more years and all these annoying small businesses will die out. Then you’ll all be complaining that NY isn’t interesting anymore and it looks like a strip mall!
Yes, 10:09, bring on Walmart.
BTW, the Community Bookstore does not sell lube, but Duane Reade does. Long live the chains!
Lezzie always rule.
Wow. Pretty sad commentary from a group of Brownstone lovers. I expected a different sensibility. While we’re turning our backs on independent bookstores in a neighborhood that built it’s brand on independent thinking, why not tear down these housing “dinosaurs” and replace them with more convenient metal and glass towers. So much for the beauty and inherent value in a business that creates and sustains life on the street. Hey let’s just bring Walmart to town. They have cheap prices and a deep selection and when they open entire business districts crumble. Who cares if Barnes and Nobel hires folks that wouldn’t know a quality book if it were read to them. I didn’t see any help from B&N after 911. Thank you Community Bookstore. I’ll be there to support with my family in tow. Parenting by example. This thread more than any other illuminates how different the new Park Slope is from that great nabe it was in the 90’s. Yet another reason to keep gentrification under some control. Get a little money and get straight STUPID!
will have to check it out.
walked by, but always thought it looked a little on the feminine side.
thought it was a lost relic of a bygone era when lezzies used to rule the slope.
Don’t you ever go to 5th Ave, 6:02? What about that sex shop on 5th right across from the public school (ironically) somewhere down around 5th street?
honestly, we could use a nice sex shop in this space.
i can’t find good lube anywhere in this neighborhood.
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