Bookshops worth the subway fare

Marjorie Feld

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Forty years of commuting between Inwood and the rest of this city will teach you where to find a decent bookshop, and where the staff will leave you alone with a novel for twenty minutes without trying to sell you a tote bag. This list runs the full length of the A train and beyond, from the stacks at Word Up down to the Strand's eighteen miles of everything. I have opinions about all of them, delivered here with the restraint I no longer need to exercise on teenagers.

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Bookshops worth the subway fare — 4 items
Name	Comment	Address	City	Neighborhood	Specialty	Best For
1Strand Book Store	I go in for one title and emerge an hour later with four and a crick in my neck. Every time, without fail.	828 Broadway	New York	East Village	Eighteen miles of new, used, and rare books	Losing an entire afternoon
2Word Up Community Bookshop	Close enough that I can get there before the branch library closes. A proper neighbourhood institution, not a performance of one.	2113 Amsterdam Avenue	New York	Washington Heights	Multilingual, volunteer-run community stock	Bilingual kids' books and local authors
3McNally Jackson Seaport	The shelf tags are written by people who actually read the books, which still feels like a radical concept.	4 Fulton Street	New York	South Street Seaport	Curated fiction and literary nonfiction	Thoughtful staff picks
4Book Culture on Columbus	A pleasant stop after the Natural History Museum, and the children's corner has kept more than one grandchild quiet.	450 Columbus Avenue	New York	Upper West Side	General interest with a strong children's room	A rainy-day browse near the museum