To browse through small bookstores is a pleasure when you are on holiday. Happily, there are a some small bookstores left in New York.
St. Mark’s Bookshop is one of them. You’ll find many books about design, art, music and theater. It´s a real nice bookstore and is open until midnight seven days a week.
31 Third Avenue, East Village – www.stmarksbookshop.com
The Strand – New York’s most well-stocked bookstore! Shelf after shelf that extends in to infinity, both horizontally and up the walls with books.
If the book is published you will definitely find it at The Strand. Among all lengths with shelves there are both new and used books. A total of 2.5 million books!
828 Broadway – www.strandbooks.com
Best children’s books can be found in the wonderful bookstore Books of Wonder. It´s New York’s oldest and largest bookstore for children, filled with lots of amazing children’s books.
After you have visited the bookstore, you can enjoy a coffee in the Cupcake Cafe.
18 West 18th Street (Flatiron area)
www.booksofwonder.com
Marc Jacobs does not just do clothes, he also has a nice little bookshop in West Village – BookMarc. Here you can find everything from books, fun stuff to notebooks and pens.
400 Blecker Street (West Village) – www.marcjacobs.com
