Posted on 12/09/2018 12:48:03 PM PST by Kaslin
I feel sacrilegious for invoking such numinous phrases, but it’s hard to think of a better personal metaphor for the Strand, New York City’s iconic bookstore located in Greenwich Village. Visiting the store is its own pilgrimage for any starved bibliophile. In a world of Amazon shipping and the $.01 paperback, Strand is an oasis, offering a rarified shopping experience that slakes our need for spontaneity through the adventitious wandering of stacks. The atmosphere begs for browsing books, both old and new. It’s anonymous and crowded, like a self-contained city.
And, as everything else in our harried age, it’s in danger of going under; but, thankfully, not for lack of business. Rather, it’s meddlesome government regulators who are threatening the Strand’s financial viability.
The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission is considering whether or not to designate the Strand a city landmark, protecting the store from financial marauders who want to scoop up its valuable real estate. But, in a bit of Shakespearean irony, the iconic bookstore is threatened by those charged with its preservation.
Strand’s current owner, Nancy Bass Wyden, wife of Oregon senator Ron Wyden, is not letting her liberalism balance the books. “By landmarking the Strand, you can also destroy a piece of New York history. We’re operating on very thin margins here, and this would just cost us a lot more, with this landmarking, and be a lot more hassle,” Wyden told the Commission during a public hearing.
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Interesting topic.
But, “I feel sacrilegious for invoking such numinous phrases, but it’s hard to think of a better personal metaphor for the Strand, New York City’s iconic bookstore located in Greenwich Village.”, horribly written.
At least the author was ambitious.
Public good outweighs individual greed. Right Wyden? God, I love to see self-righteous virtue-signaling gasbags hoist on their own petards.
So, the Senator from Oregon has a wife who runs a bookstore in New York City?
This weeks feel good story.
Yes, but is she paying a living wage?
Les Deplorables
The new musical in France.
So, the Senator from Oregon has a wife who runs a bookstore in New York City?
According to the article, it’s a family business started by her grandfather, and then her father.
Ok, where in the article does it talk about ‘what’ the problem is with it becoming a landmark and why it costs more?
And, YES...Oregon’s “Senator” lives in NYC
ping - duplicitious Senator “from Oregon”...
also, this:
It could not have happened to a nicer guy.
Interesting Amazon gets $3B incentives, but $0 for Strands. Want to ask the owner, “how are those liberal policies working for you?”
Where did the money to purchase this “landmark” originate. Certainly, not an Oregon Senator’s Salary. But, she wants to make a profit? How does that square with a state that just put $4 million in their budget for the express purpose of defending illegals and suing Trump?
What ever happened to equal protection under the law?
No kidding. Pretentious arse.
Makes me want to go shut down a bookstore or two. Or at least the thesaurus sections.
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