Dauber & Pine Bookshops, Inc. was located at 66 Fifth Avenue beginning in 1923, remaining here for the duration of the store’s lifetime. Samuel Dauber and Nathan Pine became partners in the business in 1922. Their popular and beloved bookstore stayed open until 1983. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of this and other historic buildings south of Union Square. . . .

By the late 19th century, bookseller William Beverly Harison was located at this 57 Fifth Avenue. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of this and other historic buildings south of Union Square. . . .

57 Fifth Avenue building served as the home of the groundbreaking Pearson’s Magazine and bookstore.

Pearson’s Magazine, 1899 cover (British version) Pearson’s began as a progressive British magazine in 1896 with a socialist bent and focus on literature, publishing works by Upton Sinclair, George Bernard Shaw, and H.G. Wells, among others. However, the American version, founded in 1899, began to diverge in its content and focus more on American writers and issues, especially under the editorship of Frank Harris in the 1910s and 20s, when it was located here.

Frank Harris Harris (1855-1931), an Irish immigrant who became a naturalized U.S. citizen during his editorship of Pearson’s Magazine, was a noted author, journalist, editor, publisher, and provocateur. Though committed to left-wing politics pushing the envelope, Harris managed to avoid the fate of many of his peers during World War I, with only one issue of Pearson’s banned from the mails by the Postmaster General. Throughout the war, the magazine continued to be published. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of this and other historic buildings south of Union Square. . . .

55 Fifth Avenue was once the home of the Literary Guild of America. The Literary Guild was founded in 1927 by Samuel W. Craig and Harold K. Guinzburg to provide a monthly selection of book offerings to its members. Its first selection, Zola and His Times (1928) by Matthew Josephson, was mailed to 5,732 members. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of this and other historic buildings south of Union Square. . . .

In the 1930s, 28 East 12th Street housed the Fourth International Socialist Worker’s Party Bookstore.

“Ulysses” by James Joyce, 1922 Before that, in 1928, Samuel Roth’s Book Store was located here. Roth (1893-1974) was a writer, poet, publisher, entrepreneur, crusader against censorship and all-around schemer, best known for publishing unauthorized excerpts of James Joyce's Ulysses in the United States, and for being the plaintiff in a landmark case before the U.S. Supreme Court that redefined what constitutes obscene material unprotected by the First Amendment. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of this and other historic buildings south of Union Square. . . .

The University Place Book Shop, one of Book Row’s longest-running shops, was opened on University Place by Walter Goldwater in 1932. The business was listed at 105 University Place in 1936-37, then moved to 69 University Place in 1939, and finally ended up at 821 Broadway, where it stayed from at least the 1970s through 1995. Goldwater opened the bookstore with the help of bookdealer and scout Abe Sugarman, who was also the uncle of Goldwater’s wife, Eleanor Lowenstein. Goldwater was the son of the influential political radical Dr. Abraham Goldwater, who was personally acquainted with renowned figures such as John Reed, Emma Goldman, James Weldon Johnson, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Arthur Spingarn. The University Place Book Shop was renowned for its extensive selection of books by Black authors and on the subjects of Black Studies, Caribbean Studies, and African Studies. While running the store, Goldwater sustained friendships with venerable Black authors including Langston Hughes and Claude McKay, and his customers included Historically Black Colleges and Universities such as Atlanta, Fisk, Howard, and Tuskegee Universities. In the 1950s, Goldwater issued a new edition of Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction. The bookstore’s collection also covered the topics of chess, incunabula, Russia, radicalism, communism, socialism, and the political left. Goldwater was married to Eleanor Lowenstein, the proprietor of the Corner Book Shop at 102 Fourth Avenue. The couple lived together above Lowenstein’s shop, and both were deeply involved in the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, for which Goldwater was a founding member. Goldwater made philanthropic contributions to the Schomburg Center, another one of his frequent customers, and to the New York Public Library. Yale and Columbia Universities were also customers, and hold some of the Book Shop’s collection. When his store closed in 1995, NYU paid $47,500 for Goldwater’s collection. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of this and other historic buildings south of Union Square. . . .

Starting in the 1930s, 35 East 12th Street housed the headquarters for Communist Party of the United States.

Communist Party emblem It also housed the affiliated Communist Worker’s bookshop and workers school. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of this and other historic buildings south of Union Square. . . .

Samuel Weiser began his career in bookselling as an apprentice at Bentano’s Bookstore. In the 1920s he began running his own bookstores, and in 1926 he opened the Samuel Weiser Bookstore. At different periods, his brother Ben worked here as well. The store specialized in the occult, New Age, and Eastern philosophy, and was followed worldwide by magicians and others interested in the supernatural. Illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini was said to have been a patron. Weiser’s store spent most of its life in the ground floor of 115 Fourth Avenue, but was also located at 845 and 734 Broadway. Like other Book Row businesses, the store published catalogues regularly to entertain and advertise its books to customers. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of this and other historic buildings south of Union Square. . . .

The University Place Book Shop, one of Book Row’s longest-running shops, was opened on University Place by Walter Goldwater in 1932. The business was listed at 105 University Place in 1936-37, then moved to 69 University Place in 1939, and finally ended up at 821 Broadway, where it stayed from at least the 1970s through 1995. Goldwater opened the bookstore with the help of bookdealer and scout Abe Sugarman, who was also the uncle of Goldwater’s wife, Eleanor Lowenstein. Goldwater was the son of the influential political radical Dr. Abraham Goldwater, who was personally acquainted with renowned figures such as John Reed, Emma Goldman, James Weldon Johnson, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Arthur Spingarn. The University Place Book Shop was renowned for its extensive selection of books by Black authors and on the subjects of Black Studies, Caribbean Studies, and African Studies. While running the store, Goldwater sustained friendships with venerable Black authors including Langston Hughes and Claude McKay, and his customers included Historically Black Colleges and Universities such as Atlanta, Fisk, Howard, and Tuskegee Universities. In the 1950s, Goldwater issued a new edition of Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction. The bookstore’s collection also covered the topics of chess, incunabula, Russia, radicalism, communism, socialism, and the political left. Goldwater was married to Eleanor Lowenstein, the proprietor of the Corner Book Shop at 102 Fourth Avenue. The couple lived together above Lowenstein’s shop, and both were deeply involved in the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, for which Goldwater was a founding member. Goldwater made philanthropic contributions to the Schomburg Center, another one of his frequent customers, and to the New York Public Library. Yale and Columbia Universities were also customers, and hold some of the Book Shop’s collection. When his store closed in 1995, NYU paid $47,500 for Goldwater’s collection. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of this and other historic buildings south of Union Square. . . .

In 1890, A.J. Bowden and Geroge Smith had a store, Mitchell’s Rare and Standard Books, at the building previously located at 830 Broadway. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of extant historic buildings south of Union Square. . . .

The Strand Bookstore was founded in 1927 by Benjamin Bass as a used bookstore on the famous “Book Row,” which consisted of 48 book stores along Fourth Avenue from Astor Place to Union Square. The Strand remains among the last of these bookstores.

Fred Bass, 2017 Previously located on 9th Street, The Strand was expanded by Ben’s son Fred, who moved the store to its current location at 826 Broadway in 1957. Listen to Fred Bass’ Oral History here. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of other historic buildings south of Union Square. . . .

The building formerly located on this site was the home of Irving Warshaw’s Anchor Bookshop, and Kayte, another bookstore operated by David Butler. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of extant historic buildings south of Union Square. . . .

In 1934, Bernard (or Bernie) Kraus opened a used bookstore at 112 Fourth Avenue. The Raven Book Shop specialized in American and English literature, with a particular emphasis on criticism and scholarly works. “Raven” was chosen as a name for the shop for its associations with American literature. The Raven Book Shop was a charter member of the Fourth Avenue Booksellers’ Association, founded in 1942, and an early member of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America. The former was developed in response to a campaign by New York City officials to ban sidewalk book stands, and functioned for over 25 years to organize and represent the neighborhood’s booksellers. The Raven Book Shop also took up residence at 142 Fourth Avenue and 752 Broadway. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of this and other historic buildings south of Union Square. . . .

The Green Book Shop was started in the 1920s by Harry Carp at 11 Astor Place. Carp, who had previously apprenticed for a Third Avenue book dealer, developed a store that focused on general literature, fiction, and art books. In the 1930s, he moved the Green Book Shop to a now-demolished building at 110 Fourth Avenue. His wife, Ruth, joined him in running the business in the early 1950s, and when Carp passed away in 1962, Ruth continued to operate the store. One of the preeminent women booksellers of Book Row, in 1969 she was elected president of the Fourth Avenue Booksellers’ Association. The Green Book Shop was frequented by author Philip Van Doren Stern and mystery writers John Dickson Carr and Daniel Nathan. It was at one point featured in an episode of the Emmy Award-winning television show Naked City, which led to a store robbery the following day. At its most successful, the shop had 50,000 titles, with half on display. Jack Brussel also had a bookshop at a building formerly at 110 Fourth Avenue, and then at a building formerly at 108 Fourth Avenue. Eventually, he opened the Atlantis Book Shop, later known as the Union Book Guild, at 100 Fourth Avenue. The store specialized in mathematics, philosophy, science, and sexology, and boasted early and unusual editions. Simultaneously, Brussel worked with his wife Minna to publish reprints of artistic, literary, historic, and erotica classics. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of extant historic buildings south of Union Square. . . .

Eleanor Lowenstein worked at Walter Goldwater’s University Place Book Shop before opening her own store. She founded the Corner Book Shop at 102 Fourth Avenue in June of 1940, and continued to serve as its proprietor for four decades. Corner Book Shop specialized in cookbooks, gastronomy, food, and wine, but included books on a diverse and expansive range of topics: aviation, botany, criminology, dance, fashion, juvenilia, music, perfume, photography, psychoanalysis, puppetry, radio, sea, television, theater. While running her bookstore, Lowenstein developed a reputation as a cookbook and cooking history expert. She wrote introductions to cookbooks, consulted on cookbook bibliographies, and revised Waldo Lincoln’s American Cookery Books 1742-1860 in 1954 and 1972. Lowenstein was also a charter member of the Fourth Avenue Booksellers’ Association, and the corresponding secretary of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association. She married Walter Goldwater, who had been her mentor, in 1954. The couple resided in an apartment above the shop at 102 Fourth Avenue. Today, the Records of the Corner Book Shop are held in the Schlesinger Library of the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of this and other historic buildings south of Union Square. . . .

Jack Brussel first worked as a book dealer in Brooklyn, operating a shop near the Academy of Music. In 1922, he opened a Book Row shop on Ninth Street, then embarking on a dizzying set of moves to 110 Fourth Avenue, Eighth Street and Broadway, 100 Fourth Avenue, 108 Fourth Avenue, and back to 100 Fourth Avenue in the 1940s. Throughout this period, he spent interludes away from Book Row working as a book scout. Finally, at 100 Fourth Avenue, he ran the Atlantis Book Shop, later known as the Union Book Guild, which specialized in mathematics, philosophy, science, and sexology, and boasted early and unusual editions. Simultaneously, Brussel worked with his wife Minna to publish reprints of artistic, literary, historic, and erotica classics. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of this and other historic buildings south of Union Square. . . .

“The ‘Fourth Avenue’ Book Trade,” which recorded the names of Fourth Avenue booksellers from Trow’s 1901 Business Directory of Greater New York, listed bookseller Andrew McLaren at the building formerly located at 86 Fourth Avenue. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of other historic buildings south of Union Square. . . .

In 1900, Peter Stammer started a bookshop from his personal library in the basement of a building previously located at 84 Fourth Avenue. He later relocated to 123 Fourth Avenue, and opened Stammer’s Bookstore at 61 Fourth Avenue in 1910. The store closed in 1969. Frank Bender’s bookstore was also located at the building previously located at 84 Fourth Avenue in 1917. Bender’s speciality was art books and general books. The store was later renamed Benday Bookshop, and then, after being purchased by Jack Rosenzweig, Banner Bookshop. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of other historic buildings south of Union Square. . . .

After owning a second-hand book shop at 23rd Street and Lexington Avenue, Theodore E. Schulte moved to 80 Fourth Avenue in 1917. Schulte’s was considered the largest second-hand bookstore in the country, with around a million volumes, and stayed at this location into the 1980s. This was the longest any Fourth Avenue bookstore survived in a single location. Notable customers of Schulte’s included Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fritz Kreisler, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Steve Allen, and Marion Davies. Jacob Abrahams, one of the first Fourth Avenue booksellers, opened his first bookstore at a building previously located at 80 Fourth Avenue in 1893, relocating in 1898. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of this and other historic buildings south of Union Square. . . .

The present building at 121-123 Fourth Avenue is a combination of two buildings at 121 and 123 Fourth Avenue that probably date to the mid-19th century but were conjoined with the single facade we see today in 1937. 121 and 123 Fourth Avenue were home to a number of booksellers over the course of the late-19th and 20th centuries. James Clegg’s Directory of Second-Hand Booksellers and List of Public Libraries, British and Foreign listed bookseller William Erving at 121 Fourth Avenue in 1891. “The ‘Fourth Avenue’ Book Trade,” which recorded the names of Fourth Avenue booksellers from Trow’s 1901 Business Directory of Greater New York, listed bookseller Pincus Wachester at 123 Fourth Avenue. Peter Stammer, who later opened Stammer’s Bookstore at 61 Fourth Avenue in 1910, had an earlier bookshop at 123 Fourth Avenue. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of this and other historic buildings south of Union Square. . . .

Samuel Weiser began his career in bookselling as an apprentice at Bentano’s Bookstore. In the 1920s he began running his own bookstores, and in 1926 he opened the Samuel Weiser Bookstore. At different periods, his brother Ben worked here as well. The store specialized in the occult, New Age, and Eastern philosophy, and was followed worldwide by magicians and others interested in the supernatural. Illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini was said to have been a patron. Weiser’s store spent most of its life in the ground floor of 115 Fourth Avenue, but was also located at 845 and 734 Broadway. Like other Book Row businesses, the store published catalogues regularly to entertain and advertise its books to customers. Phillips’s 1902 Business Directory of New York City also listed bookseller Alexander Deutschberger at the building formerly located at 117 Fourth Avenue. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of this and other historic buildings south of Union Square. . . .

Michael Gallagher opened the Art & Fashion Gallery, focusing on rare books, fashion, and photography, at 111 Fourth Avenue in September 2003. “The ‘Fourth Avenue’ Book Trade,” which recorded the names of Fourth Avenue booksellers from Trow’s 1901 Business Directory of Greater New York, listed Book Mart at a building previously located on this site using the address 105 Fourth Avenue. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of this and other historic buildings south of Union Square. . . .

A number of booksellers were housed in buildings previously located on this site. Bookseller Harry Gold, who ran the Aberdeen Book Company, opened his first Book Row store in 1925 at 95 Fourth Avenue. From 1940 to 1955, he operated out of 65 Fourth Avenue, then moving to 140 Fourth Avenue in the 1950s, and 308 Fifth Avenue in 1961. Phillips’s 1902 Business Directory of New York City listed bookseller M.A. Gropper at a building formerly located at 97 Fourth Avenue. Ben Rosenzweig also had a store at this address. Biblo and Tannen were at one point located at 99 Fourth Avenue, before moving to their final home at 63 Fourth Avenue. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of extant historic buildings south of Union Square. . . .

A number of booksellers were located at buildings previously at this site, as well as the building currently here. The Louis Schucman Bookstore was previously located at 77 Fourth Avenue. Schucman, who specialized in literature, history, and philosophy, was an early member of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America. David Kirschenbaum opened a bookshop at 79 Fourth Avenue in 1917. Abraham Geffen’s 79 Fourth Avenue Bookshop, and the Arcadia Bookshop, run by Milton Applebaum, were also located here. Ben Bass originally opened the Strand Bookstore at 81 Fourth Avenue. The Strand remains among the last of the Book Row stores, at 826 Broadway today. Phillips’s 1902 Business Directory of New York City listed bookseller Joseph Rosenbaum at 83 Fourth Avenue. Thomas J. Gerald, previously an orchestra leader for vaudeville and silent film palaces, opened Friendly Books and Music in 1931, listed at 83 Fourth Avenue in 1936-37. The store specialized in sheet music and books on musical subjects. “The ‘Fourth Avenue’ Book Trade,” which recorded the names of Fourth Avenue booksellers from Trow’s 1901 Business Directory of Greater New York, listed booksellers Herbert Hammond at 85 Fourth Avenue, and Alexander Hall at 89 Fourth Avenue. The Social Science Book Store was opened in 1967 by Haskell Gruberger at the building currently at 85 Fourth Avenue. It focused on philosophical and scholarly subjects, including literary and social criticism. George Foss’ The Abbey Bookshop was located at 79 East 10th Street in 1984. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of this and other historic buildings south of Union Square. . . .

A number of booksellers were located at buildings previously located at this site. James Clegg’s Directory of Second-Hand Booksellers and List of Public Libraries, British and Foreign listed bookseller William J. Casey at a former building at 71 Fourth Avenue in the 1891. Ben Weiser, who worked with his brother Samuel Weiser starting in the early 1930s, opened his bookshop, the Pickwick, at 73 Fourth Avenue. Books ‘N Things, run by Harold and Gertrude Briggs, opened on East 10th Street in 1940, then moving to 73 Fourth Avenue in 1942. 73 Fourth Avenue was also the place where the founding meeting of the Fourth Avenue Booksellers’ Association was held in 1942, and where the group’s headquarters were located. Books ‘N Things was a charter member of the Association. By 1968, Books ‘N Things had moved around the corner to 82 East 10th Street, also previously at this site. When Harold passed away, Gertrude continued to operate the store at 34 East 7th Street, and then 64 East 7th Street. Among Books ‘N Things’ famed customers were abstract expressionists Willem de Kooning, who lived just a few houses away at 88 East 10th Street from 1952 to 1959, and Jackson Pollock. André Breton, John Berryman, Robert Frost, Allen Ginsberg, Randall Jarrell, LeRoi Jones (Imamu Amiri Baraka), Jack Kerouac, Robert Lowell, Dwight MacDonald, Kenneth Patchen, Delmore Schwartz, and Oscar Williams were also customers. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of extant historic buildings south of Union Square. . . .

By the mid-1890s, bookseller George Smith opened the “Geo. D. Smith, Dealer in Choice, Rare and Miscellaneous Books” at a building formerly at 69 Fourth Avenue. Bookseller Harry Gold operated a store at the extant 65 Fourth Avenue from 1940 to 1955, then moving to 140 Fourth Avenue in the 1950s, and 308 Fifth Avenue in 1961. Gold’s store, the Aberdeen Book Company, specialized in books on science, medicine, technology, and mathematics. It also offered an array of paperback options, before these lower-priced texts were widely popular. Gold was also an avid advocate for booksellers rights, and served as the first vice president of the Fourth Avenue Booksellers’ Association. 69 Fourth Avenue was the Louis Schucman Bookstore’s final home. Previously located at 77 Fourth Avenue, it moved here in 1954. Schucman, who specialized in literature, history, and philosophy, was an early member of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of this and other historic buildings south of Union Square. . . .

Jack Biblowitz (which he shortened to Biblo) and Jack Tannen sold books together for half a century, from 1929 until 1979. Biblo had his first bookstore at 229 East 14th Street, where he was visited often by Tannen before the two began their partnership. Their shared store, Biblo and Tannen, relocated to East 9th Street near Fourth Avenue, then 99 Fourth Avenue (now demolished), 57 Fourth Avenue (now demolished), and in the mid-1950s, 63 Fourth Avenue. The duo was able to purchase 63 Fourth Avenue, and it became their shop’s permanent home. In 1961, they began a publishing division called Canaveral Press. Among their significant customers were Oklahoma’s first Senator Thomas Pryor Gore, Theodore Dreiser, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Carl Sandburg, and Ethel Barrymore (whose nurse purchased titles on Barrymore’s behalf). Biblo and Tannen were charter members of the Fourth Avenue Booksellers Association, and in 1969 Tannen was selected as association treasurer. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of this and other historic buildings south of Union Square. . . .

Peter Stammer started a bookshop in the basement of a since-demolished building at 84 Fourth Avenue with his personal library in 1900. He later relocated to 123 Fourth Avenue, and opened Stammer’s Bookstore at 61 Fourth Avenue in 1910. Stammer’s customers included public libraries and large department stores. After passing through the management of several of Stammer’s family members, the store closed in 1969. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of this and other historic buildings south of Union Square. . . .

The Pageant Book Company (later known as the Pageant Book & Print Shop) was opened on Fourth Avenue in 1945 by two World War II veterans: Henry “Chip” Chafetz and Sidney B. Solomon. Both had previously worked for George Rubinowitz at 138 Fourth Avenue. Starting in 1952, the company moved to 59 Fourth Avenue, where it stayed for several decades before moving to 109 East 9th Street. The business focused on Americana, fine arts, general literature, geography, illustrated books, and old prints and maps. It left East 9th Street in 1994.

"Call it Sleep" by Henry Roth The Pageant Book Company also published books from this location under the name of Pageant Books, Inc. While here in 1960, it re-published Henry Roth’s book Call it Sleep, dramatically changing the fortunes of both Roth and the novel. Call it Sleep was written by Roth in 1934, based on his own experience as a young Jewish immigrant child living on the Lower East Side. To this day, it is touted as a classic and one of the best depictions of the Jewish immigrant experience on the Lower East Side. Although the novel met with positive reviews at the time, it did not sell well, and both the book and Roth dropped into obscurity for the next few decades. After Pageant Books released Call it Sleep, the book was subsequently published in paperback by Avon in 1964. That same year, New York Times book critic Irving Howe reviewed it and proclaimed it to be “one of the few genuinely distinguished novels written by a 20th century American.” It would go on to sell one million copies, and its re-publication and subsequent popularity would inspire Roth to write and publish again.

Basic Books logo, 2019 59 Fourth Avenue also formerly housed Basic Books Publishing Co., founded in 1950 as a small book club marketed to psychoanalysts. Eventually the company became a prominent publisher of psychology, sociology, philosophy, politics, and history books. The “Library of Science,” was also located here in the mid-20th century. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of this and other historic buildings south of Union Square. . . .

In the mid-1920s, bookseller Ike Brussel ran a bookshop featuring general stock at a building formerly located at 57 Fourth Avenue. At one point Biblo and Tannen Bookshop was located in the building previously found on this site, before moving to their final home at 63 Fourth Avenue. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of extant historic buildings south of Union Square. . . .

From at least the 1990s until 2008, the basement of 126-128 East 12th Street housed the legendary Gallagher’s Paper Collectibles. Owned by Michael Gallagher, the store sold vintage fashion magazines, photographs, and rare art books. Among Gallagher’s estimated one million total items, according to a 2007 Village Voice article, were a hundred years’ worth of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar issues. The city’s most renowned fashion designers, photographers, and art directors were said to come here for inspiration. The business’ customers included Anna Sui, Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Steven Meisel, Richard Avedon, Annie Leibovitz, Craig McDean, Bruce Weber, and Lauren Hutton. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of this and other historic buildings south of Union Square. . . .

The Pageant Book Company (later known as the Pageant Book & Print Shop) was opened on Fourth Avenue in 1945 by two World War II veterans: Henry “Chip” Chafetz and Sidney B. Solomon. Both had previously worked for George Rubinowitz at 138 Fourth Avenue. Starting in 1952, the company moved to 59 Fourth Avenue, where it stayed for several decades before moving to 109 East 9th Street.

Pageant Book and Print Shop The business focused on Americana, fine arts, general literature, geography, illustrated books, and old prints and maps. It left East 9th Street in 1994. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of this and other historic buildings south of Union Square. . . .