“There are too many good bookstores in Brooklyn,” Bob Contant said. Contant is one of two co-owners of St. Mark’s Bookshop, the embattled last independent bookstore standing in the East Village. He ...

St. Mark’s Bookshop has fallen on hard times lately, inspiring a local campaign to pressure landlord Cooper Union to lower the rent from $20,000/month to a more manageable $15,000. Otherwise, the ...

Jeremiah Moss, the creator of the blog Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York, has responded to yesterday’s dispiriting denial of a rent reduction to St. Mark’s Bookshop by Cooper Union with his own petition. ...

The petition has almost 40,000 signatures, but needs more. It reads: The St. Mark’s Bookshop, a vital Lower East Side cultural institution, needs a rent low enough to survive. Join the Cooper Square ...

We lost two iconic NYC counter-culture shops last weekend, while rock n’ roll clothing store Trash and Vaudeville had it’s last day at its St. Mark’s locale.

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Bob Contant, who stubbornly sustained his countercultural bookshop for nearly four decades, even as it decamped farther and farther from its punk-rock playground on St. Mark’s Place in the East ...