Legendary Home of 18 Miles of Books. Independent and Family-Owned Bookstore Since 1927. New York's Largest New, Used and Rare Booksellers.

The Strand Bookstore is an independent bookstore located at 828 Broadway, at the corner of East 12th Street in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, two blocks south of Union Square.

This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street. ACCESSIBILITY: Strand Book Store is an ADA compliant venue.

This historic landmark book store offers an enormous variety of new, used, and rare books totaling more than 18 miles, including a vast selection of out-of-print books.

Mar 5, 2025 · Founded in 1927 by Benjamin Bass, a Lithuanian immigrant with a passion for books, the Strand began on Fourth Avenue’s legendary “Book Row,” which once housed 48 bookstores. Today, the Strand stands as the sole survivor of that era, now operated by the third generation of the Bass family.

Ninety years and a move over to Broadway, the Strand is still run by the Bass Family and is home to four floors of over 2.5 million used, new, and rare books, a wide array of bookish gifts, and fun literary events held almost every night of the week.

Welcome to Strand Book Store, affectionately known to book lovers around the world as The Strand, the largest independent bookstore in New York City! Established in 1927, we're now in our third generation of family ownership under the leadership of Nancy Bass Wyden. We carry new, used, and rare books and an endless array of bookish gifts.

Strand Book Store. 105,380 likes · 99 talking about this · 4,564 were here. Welcome to Strand, home of 18 miles of books in NYC! Founded in 1927. Family-owned. Woman-owned....