Bookstores in New York

A guide to the best independent
New York bookstores

Albany

The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza - 1475 Western Ave.

Amagansett

Book Hampton - 154 Main St.

Batavia

Present Tense - 101 Washington Ave.

Binghamtom

Black Cat Books - 2491 Main St. - (631) 725-8654 - Used, Collectible, Rare books

Campus Shop - Broome Community College Student Center

RiverRead - 5 Court St.

Brockport

Lift Bridge Book Shop - 45 Main St. - (585) 637-2260

Bronx

Paperbacks Plus - 3718 Riverdale Ave.

Bronxville

Womrath Book Shop - 76 Pondfield Rd.

Brooklyn

BookCourt - 163 Court St.

The BookMark Shoppe - 8415 Third Ave.

Brownstone Books - 409 Lewis Ave.

Community Bookstore - 143 Seventh Ave.

Greenlight Bookstore - 686 Fulton St.

Here's A Book Store - 1964 Coney Island Ave. - Used books

P.S. Bookshop - 145A Front St - Used books

Read Cafe and Book Shop - 196 Bedford Ave.

Rocketship - 208 Smith St.

Shakespeare & Company - Brooklyn Academy of Music, 30 Lafayette Ave.

Spoonbill & Sugartown, Booksellers - 218 Bedford Ave. - Used books

Vox Pop - 1022 Cortelyou Rd. - 718-940-2084

WORD - 126 Franklin St.

Buffalo

Dog Ears Bookstore & Literary Arts Center - 688 Abbott Rd.

Talking Leaves Books - 3158 Main St.

Talking Leaves Elmwood - 951 Elmwood Ave.

The University Bookstore - 200 Lee Entrance

Cambridge

Battenkill Books - 1 E. Main St.

Canton

SLU Bookstore - St. Lawrence University, Brewer Bookstore

Chatham

Chatham Bookstore - 27 Main St.

Clarence Center

Crossroads Books - 6010 Goodrich Road

Monkey See, Monkey Do - 9060 Main St - (716) 218-4121 -
Children's books

Clinton

Park Row Booksellers - 9 West Park Row

Colonie

Flights of Fantasy - 381 Sand Creek Rd.

Dansville

The Book Den - 174 Main St.

Delmar

Friar Tuck Bookshop - Delaware Plaza, Delaware Ave.

Dryden

A Book Barn of Finger Lakes - 198 North Rd - Used books

Dunkirk

Book Nook - 1170 Central Ave., #13

East Hampton

Book Hampton - 41 Main St.

Geneseo

Sundance Books - 106 Main St.

Geneva

The College Store - 51 Saint Clair St.

Glen Falls

Red Fox Books - 28 Ridge St.

Greenville

Greenville Booksmith - 4852 Route 81 - (518) 966-4418

Greenwich

Union Village - 79 Main St.

Hamilton

Colgate Bookstore - 3 Utica St.

Hobart

Hobart International Bookport - 615 Main St. - Used books

Hudson

The Spotty Dog - 440 Warren St.

Hunter

Village Square Bookstore - 7950 Main St./Rte. 23A - (518) 263-2050

Huntington Village

Book Revue - 313 New York Ave.

Ithaca

Autumn Leaves Used Books - 115 the Commons - Alternative

The Bookery II - Dewitt Mall, 215 N. Cayuga St.

Cornell Campus Store - 15 Central Ave.

Jamaica

St. John's University Bookstore - Marillac Hall

Johnstown

Mysteries on Main Street - 144 W. Main St.

Kinderhook

Blackwood & Brouwer Booksellers - 7 Hudson St.

Lake Placid

Bookstore Plus - 2491 Main St.

Larchmont

Anderson's Book Shop - 96-98 Chatsworth Ave.

The Voracious Reader - 1997 Palmer Ave. - Children's/YA books

Little Falls

Gansevoort House Books - 42 W. Gansevoort St.

Livingston Manor

Hamish & Henry Booksellers - 34B Main St.

Long Island City

BklynBooks - 21 2141st Ave.

Millbrook

Merritt Bookstore - 57 Front St. - (845) 677-5857

Millerton

Oblong Books & Music - 26 Main St.

Montauk

Barnacle Books - 37 A Plaza South

Nanuet

Origin - 75 W. Route 59

New Paltz

Barner Books - 3 Church St. - (845) 255-2635 - Used, out-of-print, collectibles

Inquiring Minds Bookstore - 6 Church St.

New York City

192 Books - 192 Tenth Ave.

Archivia Books - 993 Lexington Ave - (212) 570-9565
Specialty: Architecture & Design

Asia Store - 725 Park Ave.

Bank Street Bookstore - 610 West 112 St.

Bluestockings Bookstore - 172 Allen - Feminist, Alternative books

Bookberries - 983 Lexington Ave.

Book Culture - 536 W. 112th St.

Books of Wonder - 18 W. 18th St. - Children's books

Choices Books & Gift Shop - 220 E 78th St - (212) 794-3858

Corner Bookstore - 1313 Madison Ave.

The Drama Book Shop - 250 W. 40th St.

East West Living - 78 Fifth Ave.

Gotham Book Mart - closed

Hue-Man Bookstore - 2319 Frederick Douglas Blvd. - African-American

Idlewild Books - 12 W. 19th St.

Ink - 66 Avenue A

The Juilliard Bookstore - 60 Lincoln Center Plaza
Specialty: Music

Labyrinth Books - 536 W. 112th St.

Liberation Book Store - 421 Lenox Ave.

Librairie de France - 610 Fifth Ave.

McNally Jackson - 52 Prince St.

Mercer Street Books - 206 Mercer St.

NYU Main Book Center - 18 Washington Place

Oscar Wilde Bookshop - 15 Christopher St.

Partners & Crime - 44 Greenwich Ave - (212) 243-0440

Penn Books - Penn Plaza

Penn Books - Lower Level Penn Station

Posman Books - 9 Grand Central Terminal

Revolution Books - 9 W 19th St

Rizzoli Bookstore - 31 W. 57th St.

Shakespeare & Company - 137 E. 23rd St.

Shakespeare & Company - 716 Broadway

Shakespeare & Company - 1 Whitehall St.

Shakespeare & Company - 939 Lexington Ave.

St. Mark's Bookshop - 31 3rd Ave.

The Strand - 828 Broadway - (212) 473-1452

The Strand Annex - 93 Fulton St.

Three Lives & Co - 154 W. 10th St. - Used books, Alternative

Workman's Circle Bookstore - 45 E. 33rd St.

Niagara Falls

The Book Corner - 1801 Main St

Nyack

J. Dunnigan Books - 6 S. Broadway

Onetona

The Green Toad Bookstore - 198 Main St. - (607) 433-8898

Orchard Park

B is for Books - 6562 E. Quaker St.

Oswego

The College Book Store - State University of New York, Hewitt Union

River's End Bookstore - 19 West Bridge St.

Pawling

Book Cove - 22 Charles Coleman Blvd.

Penn Yan

Long's Cards & Books - 115 Main St.

Perry

Burlingham Books - 2 S. Main St.

Pleasantville

The Village Bookstore - 10 Washington Ave.

Port Washington

Dolphin Bookshop - 941 Port Washington Blvd.

Poughkeepsie

The Three Arts - 3 Collegeview Ave.

Red Hook

Merritt Bookstore - 7496 South Broadway

Rensselaer

Friar Tuck Bookshop - Amtrak Rail Station, 525 East St.

Rhinebeck

Oblong Books & Music - 6422 Montgomery St.

Rochester

Mood Makers Books - 274 North Goodman St.

Worldwide News - 100 Saint Paul St.

Rockville Center

The Village Bookshoppe - 7 N. Village Ave.

Sag Harbor

Canio's Books - 290 Main St.

Saranac Lake

Fact & Fiction Bookshop - 14 Broadway, Ste. 2

Saratoga Springs

Craven Books - 441 Broadway

Saugerties

The Inquiring Mind - 65 Partition St.

Sayville

Runaway Bay Books - 10 Main St.

Schenectady

Open Door Bookstore - 128 Jay St.

Union College Bookstore - Reamer Campus Ctr, 801 Union St.

Schuylerville

Old Saratoga Books - 94 Broad St. - (518) 695-1301 - Used books

Skaneateles

Creekside Books & Coffee - 35 Fennell St.

Southampton

Book Hampton - 91 Main St.

Staten Island

Clove Lake Book Store - 1174 Victory Blvd.

Syracuse

The Lavender Inkwell Bookshoppe - 304 N. McBride St.

The University Bookstore - 305 University Place

Troy

Market Block Books - 290 River St.

Valatie

Evenstar Book & Gift Emporium - 3019A Main St.

Webster

Yesterday's Muse - 32 W. Main St. - (585) 265-9295 - Used, Rare books

Westhampton Beach

Open Book - 128 Main St., #A

West Point

USMA Bookstore - Thayer Hall 4th Floor

Woodstock

Golden Notebook - 29 Tinker St.

 

 

Return to NewPages Guide to Independent  Bookstores Index ::
Order Bookstore Mailing List