It’s the shop around the corner and I haven’t said a thing. An OTBKB reader even emailed me a snap shot of the For Rent sign in the window of Seventh Avenue Park Slope Books.
I had the scoop and I screwed up.
That’s right. Seventh Avenue Park Slope Books, the used bookstore on Seventh Avenue between 2nd and 3rd Streets is closing. They are, however, combining with their Brooklyn Heights store, Heights Books, and continuing to sell online.
I love that shop (even if I never got it straight, which one was Seventh Avenue and which one was Park Slope Books. Thanks to Francis Morrone for writing in with the correction). I especially love their display of books in the window; it’s always changing and is arranged by theme.
I’ve bought a few books there. "World Poetry, An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity To Our Time," a 1,200 pager cost $45 new. I got it for 20 bucks. Not bad.
This announcement comes just three months after Park Slope Seventh Avenue Books announced that they were closing. I was very proud of the fact that we had two, count ’em, two independent booksellers right around the corner.
No more. No more.
Why we should be shopping in the neighborhood:
Yesterday I’d decided I needed a particular toy as a gift, rejected shopping in the neighborhood because of price-flation and the expectation that all I could get would be pricey Euro imports. Ended up (after the KMart and Toys R Us outpost in the Village–remember the one at Albee Sq. is gone) at the Toys R Us at Times Square with all the tourists who couldn’t get into their Broadway shows. (Store is such a tourist destination that they take photos when you come in and try to sell them to you on the way out!) Did get what I wanted.
Just now I went out to the card store on Seventh Avenue opposite Key Food to get wrap and ribbon. They had the same toy I’d bought at Toys R Us on an unpleasant, long outing. For less.