Long and narrow, with high ceilings, Westsider is packed to the rafters with used books. The shelves are stacked 15 levels tall. Ask for a title you can't find and the knowledgeable shopkeeper will mount a tall rolling ladder to retrieve it.
view from the second level
Not only are the books packed high, they're also packed deep--two levels deep. If the book you're looking for doesn't come down from the heights, the shopkeeper will dig behind the first layer of volumes, pulling out handfuls at a time, to find your quarry in the depths.
It's the sort of place where you can lose yourself.
4 comments:
Nice to know... I'm not in this neighborhood very often. I love shops like this where there are seemingly disorganized piles everywhere, yet the owner/employees know EXACTLY where something is.
Thanks for giving indie shops/books some love this week.
I love this book store. It has been around for a very long time!!!
Glad to see a bookstore thriving and surviving these days!
Thanks for your sharing! Cheers!
I used to frequent this bookstore when I lived on 73rd street. The people that worked there were hot and cold. After one bad experience I stopped going. Im glad they still exist.
The book store further uptown on Broadway, Murder Ink(best detective book store EVER)-Ivy Books was there for 35 years...they were always nice, they closed. I think there is a super condo/baby factory or chain store that caters to super condo baby makers -like Buy Buy Baby more Crap or Barnes and Brain Drain for the Masses there now.
What a shame, what a shame, what a shame.
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