#BOOKCULTURE

Josh Getzler

 

Thanks to everyone for your good wishes while I was out with the shoulder surgery. Still barking a bit after two weeks, and I've got an I-Can't-Shave beard going and am still sleeping upright on the couch. But getting there. Thanks to Danielle Burby and Todd Moss for posting the past two weeks.

 

One of the more exciting things that happened in the past month is that Book Culture, an independent bookstore that lost its lease uptown, announced that it was reopening in one of the retail spaces below my apartment building. And instead of putting up the usual brown butcher's paper to cover the windows during renovation, they put up a happy sign telling the story of the return of a bookstore to the former site of an older store, Endicott Books, which was one of the inspirations for You've Got Mail.

 

This weekend, my wife and I were taking a walk and saw that there were a bunch of brightly colored stickies on the window of the store. Turns out that an anonymous Upper West Sider decided to create an Old School Pinterest board and put out a bunch of sticky pads and Sharpies and asked the neighbors to write notes about the new store, take photos, and post on Twitter with #BOOKCULTURE. And they did. And the neighborhood is truly giddy. More next week, but here are a couple of very happy pictures.

 

 

Comments

[Sheila Boneham]

Lucky you, lucky neighborhood! And what a great idea. (Also glad you're healing!)

[Suzanne]

This is so cool! I've lived in the area (76th and Amsterdam) for about 12 years, so it is very exciting to have another bookstore up here. I read that McNally Jackson had sought out a space and rejected the neighborhood because the rent was too high everywhere they looked. Wooo hooo UWS!

[Suzanne Reisman]

But oh no! I just realized that means Olde Goode Things is gone. Oh well.