{"id":46324,"date":"2019-01-05T04:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T09:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=46324"},"modified":"2019-01-04T21:34:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T02:34:55","slug":"leave-the-strand-alone-iconic-bookstore-owner-pleads-with-nyc-dont-landmark-my-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/01\/05\/leave-the-strand-alone-iconic-bookstore-owner-pleads-with-nyc-dont-landmark-my-property\/","title":{"rendered":"Leave the Strand Alone! Iconic Bookstore Owner Pleads With NYC: Don&#8217;t Landmark My Property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kZoIlz2y4Cw\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>ReasonTV<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 4 Jan 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Leave the Strand Alone! Iconic Bookstore Owner Pleads With NYC: Don&#8217;t Landmark My Property<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More from the article at <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/04\/leave-the-strand-alone-iconic\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Reason<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If New York City moves ahead with a proposal to landmark the home of the Strand Book Store, it would be putting a &#8220;bureaucratic noose&#8221; around the business, says owner Nancy Bass Wyden. &#8220;The Strand survived through my dad and grandfather&#8217;s very hard work,&#8221; Wyden says, and now the city wants to &#8220;take a piece of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Opened by her grandfather, Benjamin Bass, in 1927, the Strand is New York City&#8217;s last great bookstore \u2014 a four-story literary emporium crammed with 18 miles of merchandise stuffed into towering bookcases arranged along narrow passageways. It&#8217;s the last survivor of the world-famous Booksellers Row, a commercial district comprised of about 40 secondhand dealers along Fourth Avenue below Union Square.<\/p>\n<p>On December 4, 2018, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission held a public hearing on a proposal to designate the building that&#8217;s home to the Strand as a historic site. If the structure is landmarked, Wyden would need to get permission from the city before renovating the interior or altering the facade.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would be very difficult to be commercially nimble if we&#8217;re landmarked,&#8221; Wyden tells Reason. &#8220;We&#8217;d have to get approvals through a whole committee and bureaucracy that do not know how to run a bookstore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wyden&#8217;s outrage derives in part from her family&#8217;s decades of struggle to keep the business alive.<\/p>\n<p>The Strand survived, she says, because of &#8220;my grandfather and my dad&#8217;s very hard work and their passion &#8230; Both worked most of their lives six days a week&#8221; and they &#8220;hardly took vacations.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ReasonTV Published on 4 Jan 2019 Leave the Strand Alone! 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