RECOMMENDED: 100th anniversary of Argosy Book Store - Founded in 1925 / 1925-2025 🗽 📚 🇺🇸

Independent bookstore in New York City, USA.
„The Argosy Book Store is New York City's oldest independent bookstore. Located at 116 East 59th Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues in Midtown Manhattan, it occupies an entire six-story townhouse with various sales floors specializing in first editions, Americana, leather bindings, antique maps and prints, and autographs. The store, also noted for a wide selection of bargain books, has its own framing and shipping departments and owns a large warehouse in Brooklyn."

www.argosybooks.com
 

Summary: The enormous stock of antiquarian and out-of-print items fills a six-floor building in midtown Manhattan and a large warehouse in Brooklyn. The shop first stood along the book row of Fourth Avenue before moving to East 59th Street in the 1930s, where the city has since grown up around it. Located at 116 East 59th Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues in Midtown Manhattan, it occupies an entire townhouse with various sales floors specializing in first editions, Americana, leather bindings, antique maps and prints, and autographs.

Industry: Specialty retail

Founded: 1925

Founder: Louis Cohen

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Book Club Bar, East Village, 197 E 3rd St

Community Bookstore, Park Slope, 143 7th Ave, Brooklyn

Dear Friend Books, 343A Tompkins Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Greenlight Bookstore, Fort Greene, 686 Fulton St, Brooklyn

McNally Jackson Books, 134 Prince St, New York

Powerhouse Arena, 28 Adams St, Brooklyn, NY

Strand Book Store, 828 Broadway, New York

Sweet Pickle Books, 47 Orchard St