Bargin textbooks just don’t pay Greenwich Village rents.
Lefty neighborhood establishment, Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Cut price Guides, will close its doors on its 34 Carmine St. storefront this thirty day period adhering to a rent hike. The shop is set to be cleared out by the end of June, Patch first noted.
In its a few decades in the community, the tome retailer has turn into a community landmark for its weathered awning and shocking selection of specialty titles. In 2016, it served as a single of then-presidential prospect Bernie Sanders’ 4 Manhattan headquarters. In 2011, it housed the Occupy Wall Avenue library.
While the shop’s longtime proprietor Jim Drougas has admitted defeat, he stays buoyed by the probability of reopening somewhere else.
“I’ve been obtaining fun all of these decades, I’m not despondent,” Drougas told Patch. “I’m truly form of hopeful some thing is likely to convert up, we have had a huge effect and a good deal of men and women have been really supportive.”
“Even if we have to shut, for now, I’m pretty identified to maintain it heading someplace, by some means,” he extra.
Staying in Greenwich Village, or at minimum Reduce Manhattan, however, stays the purpose.
“We were being in this circumstance and produced it out only by means of our remarkable community assist! We can do this NYC — really don't give up,” the activist bookshop Bluestockings commented encouragingly on an emotional post about the closure by the Vanishing New York Instagram account.
“The last bastion can’t go down!” wrote a further.
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