The chain bookstore, with its club chairs and long tables and nice lighting, has accidentally become a surrogate for the community centers we ought to have in far greater quantity. heybonanos writes
. The dumpy stores are getting overhauled, the closures of the past few years are being reevaluated, and the crassest marketing practices have been chucked out, and he has a fine grasp of how big and how driven by centralization a neighborhood bookseller ought to be. The former 86th Street store was at the base of an immense 2007 condo with a mostly glass façade, and its space is now a Target.
Even more important, those sorta-shoppers have somewhere to sit, period. The increasingly hostile architecture of New York and other cities, meant to deter unhoused people from setting up camp, now means that it’s surprisingly hard for anyone, let alone someone homeless, to get off their feet. If you look presentable, you can go into lots of stores and browse, but very few have seating. Street benches are comparatively rare, except in districts where a BID installs and keeps an eye on them.
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