Save St Mark's Bookshop

Gabrielle Martinez
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[Action Alert] • The St. Mark's Bookshop in New York's East Village needs a rent low enough to survive. Join the Cooper Square Committee in petitioning Cooper Union, the bookstore's landlord, to give this critical New York cultural institution a lower rent.

When St. Mark's first opened in 1977, the rent was $375 a month. Since then, this independent bookstore has become an indispensible source for radical and alternative writings for two generations of scholars, seekers, avant-ists and anarchists. The rent has since increased to $20,000 a month, an amount that owners Terence McCoy and Tom Contant fear could put them out of business. They are asking their landlord, Cooper Union, for a rent reduction of $5,000 a month. With sales low they don't think they can survive without lowering their overhead.

Join the Cooper Square Committee petitioning Cooper Union, the bookstore's landlord, to give St. Mark's Bookshop a lower rent. A significant rent concession by Cooper Union could save this irreplaceable neighborhood institution.

Sign the petition here!

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Sign your petition?? Really??

Submitted by HouseOfJux on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 23:43.
I see absolutely no reason why this bookstore is even on Reality Sandwich. Selling books made of paper is anachronistic in a society that is evolving toward digital media. But more to the point, please don't use Reality Sandwich to push micro-agendas that have nothing to do with the evolution of mankind. I'm so disappointed that you think this story is newsworthy, and that based on a three paragraph blurb you expect me to sign my name to your petition. Treating your readers like mindless sheep seems completely antithetical to the evolver agenda. You are undermining your own credibility. Please rethink the decisions that placed this petition on your webpage.

On the Other Hand

Submitted by Pippalayana on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 16:44.

St Marks general area has been an ongoing hub for several generations of alternative and progressive thought and culture.

So many seeds of our present ideologies were planted and nourished there.  If a solar flare knocked out all web communication, and/or the governments of the world started heavily censoring, and even closing off Internet access, some of us would be grateful for some good, 'ole fashioned "hard copy" sensibilities still being preserved.

Lets all make the transition gradually honoring the old while respecting the future .. lest we become lost to mere generational ideology either way.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Wonder is what Mystery would do if it was conscious" ... "Wandering is for every other possibility" Pippalayana Muni

I have visited so many times

Submitted by fredaston on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 16:36.
I have visited so many times in New York The St. Mark's Bookshop. I already bought different books from here. By the way I kinda worry to hear that sounds. I agree to helps them donate something survive this organization. Thanks! Fred Aston @ best pizza Houston.

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