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Lake Placid, New York
An independent, locally owned and operated bookshop that has served Lake Placid for over 40 years, stocking an extensive run of Adirondack and regional titles alongside children's books and general fiction. It also carries art supplies, filling the town's only combined book-and-art-materials shop.
Best for Adirondack titles, general books and art supplies
SoHo & Nolita, Manhattan
Sarah McNally opened the original Prince Street shop in December 2004. Five stores later, it still runs its own publishing imprint, McNally Editions.
Best for Books and staff recommendations at the SoHo branch
Sarah McNally opened the first McNally Jackson Books on Prince Street in SoHo in December 2004, building the store around curated, staff-driven selection rather than a big-box inventory model — the kind of shop where a "Staff Picks" shelf carries real weight in what sells. The approach scaled further than most independent bookstores manage: McNally Jackson now runs five locations across the city — SoHo, Williamsburg, Seaport, Downtown Brooklyn, and Rockefeller Center — each keeping its own curated sections rather than a single centralized buying list.
The store also publishes under its own imprint, McNally Editions, putting the bookstore on the other side of the business it's spent two decades curating for. Signed copies, a Reader Rewards program, and dedicated kids' and YA sections round out a format built less around volume than around the idea that a bookstore's judgment — what it chooses to stock and promote — is itself the product.
Broadway, downtown Saratoga Springs, New York
Northshire Bookstore anchors Broadway with a deep curated selection, staff picks and frequent author events, as a companion to the original Manchester, Vermont store. Gifts sit alongside the books on its shelves.
Best for Books, gifts, author events
New York / 828 Broadway at 12th St
Strand Book Store combines new titles with used and rare books at its Broadway shop near East 12th Street. Benjamin Bass founded the business on Fourth Avenue in 1927, before the move to its present Broadway location in 1957. The mix gives readers room to compare recent publications with older editions across a broad selection of subjects.
Best for New, used and rare books near Union Square
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