St. Mark’s Bookshop
St. Mark's Bookshop was an independent book store, established in 1977 in New York City's East Village, Manhattan, East Village neighborhood. It was the oldest independent bookstore in Manhattan owned by its original owners. The shop, run by proprietors Bob Contant and Terry McCoy, specialized in Culture theory, cultural and critical theory, graphic design, poetry, small presses, and film studies—what the ''New York Times'' called "neighborhood-appropriate literature". It featured a curated selection of fiction, periodicals and Literary magazine, journals, including foreign titles, and included unusual-for-bookstores sections on belles-lettres, Anarchism, anarchists, art criticism, women's studies, music, drama, and drugs. The store, named after 8th Street / St. Mark's Place (Manhattan), St. Mark's Place, its original location, closed on February 28, 2016, due to rising rent and mismanagement. Description The Third Avenue location featured small press poetry books, among other ...
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