I love this post by Annika. She’s right – the Upper West Side Barnes & Noble is the best one in the city, in my opinion. I haven’t been there in years – it’s way out of my way – now I usually go to the B&N in Union Square which is a madhouse. A madhouse of sale tables, calendar racks, and parents with strollers. It just doesn’t have the same relatively serious vibe that the Upper West Side one has. I used to live up there, and spent hours of my life in that place.
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The last time I was in New York, we went to the Barnes and Noble on Union Square. I hated that place. It’s too huge to browse and like four stories high and really, really noisy. You know when you’re looking in the fiction section and it suddenly hits you that you wanted to check out Such and Such in the Whatever section? I hate having to go to a friggin’ map and coast up three flights of stairs just to get there. I’m never going to that place again.
Yup. The entire place is a huge pain in the ass.
I was about to just jump in and say, the Bookman’s in Sierra Vista. But it looks like it may be no more as their website doesn’t list the Sierra Vista store any more. The Mesa store was good, but the SV store was homey. Fantastic stuff.
Don’t know if I ever mentioned this, but the first time I was in NYC in ’88, I stayed with my second cousins, half a block north of the Strand on Broadway. I spent more time in that store…
I could have really gotten used to that.
But isn’t it that Union Square Barnes and Noble that has a great bathroom in the children’s section??
Beth – hahaha Yes. You are right. I do not know what I would do without that public bathroom. It is centrally located (although you have to go up 3 escalators) – it is clean – and there are about 10 stalls so if you have to poop, you don’t have a long line waiting. I’m all about public bathroom convenience in NYC – and that store is a godsend.