Fans of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo can head to this 83 year-old bookshop, which shares a name with a lit-spot in the film. Bibliophiles will swoon when they see Argosy's selection of old and rare books and their stock of [more...]

Next year will mark this Brooklyn Heights bookstore's 10th birthday, and it's one we're happy to celebrate. The Montague street shop stocks a huge selection of books–everything from art and design to science and religion. [more...]

This Morningside Heights bookstore has one of the largest selection of children's books in New York. Beloved series like Harry Potter and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events rub bindings with books on [more...]

Though this bookstore's canvas totes have become nearly as ubiquitous as Uggs, the Strand is still the spot for those seeking an enormous selection of discounted used and new books as well as rare and collectible reads. A [more...]

Owners Henry Zook and Mary Gannett opened their Cobble Hill bookshop in 1981 and ever since, it has been a family-friendly place to scoop up titles by local authors, both fiction and nonfiction. A separate children's room has a great [more...]

This Cambria Heights bookstore offers locals a good selection of books in Creole, English and French. The shop's special focus is on on Haiti and the Francophone Caribbean; they now also have a Francophone African literature [more...]

100% of the profits from this lovely and altruistic bookstore and cafe go to Housing Works, a non-profit that provides services like job training, health care, and other services for homeless New Yorkers with HIV/AIDS. Rare books mingle [more...]

Bargains abound at this Park Slope shop–an offshoot of Brooklyn Heights' Heights Books–where still-in-print-books sell for half the retail price. The owners scour estate, garage and yard sales for rare and out-of-print books and [more...]

Shakespeare & Co. is a unique mini-chain of bookstores. They sample their inventory from various levels of popular best sellers - making for a grand selection. One can find anything from the latest Sneaker hunting booklet to poetry [more...]

Untitled is kind of a like a bookstore with cards... or maybe a card store with books. You can buy all kinds of beautiful art postcards and art books - a perfect place to buy a gift, or the punctuation on a gift, for a loved one.
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