But for libraries, it was a kind of hell,” writes Travis McDade in Thieves of Book Row: New York’s Most Notorious Rare Book Ring and the Man Who Stopped It (Oxford University Press).

Key Highlight: The Strand is known for its unique tote bag designs for bibliophiles – you may want to pick one up to carry the books you buy, or browse its other literary merch.

While the rest of New York’s “Book Row” disappeared, the Strand expanded and innovated — adding new books, amassing a celebrated collection of rare tomes, and offering music, movies ...

In 1927, Bass Wyden's grandfather opened the store on a thoroughfare in New York called "Book Row." Since then, the city's bookstores have dwindled, but the Strand remained a powerhouse of ...

The Strand has survived almost a century as perhaps New York’s most famous bookstore ... In the 1920s, six blocks of Fourth Avenue were known as “Book Row.” Of the 48 bookstores that ...

In a December Landmarks Preservation Commission, the NY Times says ... in 1927 over on Fourth Avenue on what was then called “Book Row’ — six city blocks that housed forty-eight bookstores.