NYC

>>9597182
The Strand or by any of the colleges/universities. Also visit public libraries.

NY sucks go to philly

Why are all the trees dying :(

Is it because of global warming?

Sly Fox in East Village. Very shitty Ukrainian bar with mirrors on the ceiling and 4 dollars for a PBR and shot of whiskey.

>>9597254
I'm there for a week so if I get bored (unlikely), I could take the train to Philly. Any recommendations

blue stockings!!!!

>>9597182
my apartment baby ;)

>>9597182
that's a big park

Stay away from Brooklyn.

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>>9597276
What a silly question.

Of course it's from global warming.

The warming is especially bad in Central Park due to the evil emanations coming from the Trump international hotel at it's southwest corner.

>>9597345
If you do go to Philly, go to the Mutter museum; but NYC >Philly; go to the White Horse Tavern in the Village in NYC.

>>9598677
if its global warming then why is it so cold here? Why am I wearing a jacket in June

>>9598859
it's climate change, not global warming. the narrative has changed - didn't you get the deep state memo?

>>9597190
Top floor of the Strand is probably the most /lit/ place in NYC

>Westsiders
>Better Read Than Dead

Unless you're looking for dat glitzy "indie bookstore feel", look for the smaller used bookstores.

Alabaster Bookshop
Unnamable Books
Book Thug Nation

I'm visiting NYC for five weeks this summer. It'll be my first time in US since I've never traveled outside of Europe and hardly outside of north. What should I expect? How should I spend my time there?

>>9597182
>>9597345
>>9598665
>>9597254
>>9598708
>>9599619

There's almost no one on /lit/ who isn't uncool, a freak, or a loser. You idiots barely even read. Nobody who was cool or patrician would interact in a gay ass /soc/ thread like this. Please stay out of America's best east coast cities--we already have enough browns and blacks to need white trash/eurofags like you--and visit some bumfuck shithole where you'd fit in, or some shit-tier city like Knoxville, Atlanta, or Miami.

The White Horse.
You can have a drink where Dylan Thomas drank himself to death

>>9599619
you should expect a ton of shiny buildings, people who don't make eye contact, big sandwiches, traffic, and as of late, rain. I recommend you just take the city in rather than trying to stuff your schedule with stuff. Visit some art museums and walk around. Stay out of time square because its tourist shit and consumer capital heaven. Its not even amusing nor interesting, its a nauseating waste of electricity. Also don't listen to this guy >>9599727 because nyc has no problem with people from different countries and this fact is part of the fabric of the city itself

>>9597190
The Strand sucks dirty ass

>>9597182
If you don't have friends here you aren't gonna have a very wild time. New York is only fun if you're actually doing something here. The city is great, but just because you're here doesn't mean you'll have a good time. Go to parks (more out of the way the better) and museums.
>Best bookstores
You should listen to >>9597190 and go to the Strand

>>9599533
>>9599542
Damn, givin out your fav bookshops just like that? Ain't you afraid some NYU fuckers might be in here? Hope you didn't give your real favs.

>>9599619
Just walk around. We have great parks. Go to Chelsea and check out some of the gallery shows if you like that kind of thing. Go to the Brooklyn Museum and MoMA on their free days. The Met is nice but don't do it all in one day. Go to the Cloisters while you're here. Best park in the city and the museum has some great religious art.

Go to Molasses Books in Brooklyn. You can trade books for books, or trade books for coffee/alcohol. It's really small and quaint. The only book place worth visiting in Brooklyn.

Pity Skyline's closed. My fave Mannahatta venues.

>>9597182

You should visit the giant bear trap they put by ground zero to prevent a repeat of Godzilla 2001.

Thanks people, I added a bunch of stuff to my list

>>9600858
I didn't know anyone when I went to SF last year and still had a blast. I'm staying at a hostel (because fuck are hotels here expensive), so I'm sure I'll meet some cool people.

Thanks for the advice.

>>9597254
my man

>>9599727
you are projecting yourself onto your computer scree

>>9598859
It's not fucking cold here, what are you talking about? It's been in the 60s and 70s every day for the past month.

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>>9602733
god damn June 6!

>>9600269
God this post made me cringe. And stay out of time square?? It's for tourists and very fun for even the most jaded tourist.

Go walk around Greenwich Village.

>>9601833
There and Better Read Than Dead. No-bullshit good used books.

Post pics of your NYC meetup so I can laugh at you subhuman losers.

>>9597182
Kgb, mellow pages, book thug nation, Albertine (in the french consulate).

But the night life in new york is better than the book life.

>>9604858
Won't post pics, but I actually got a membership to soho house and my friend is cara delevigne's personal trainer....

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I've lived in NYC for a while now. The best book stores are:

1) East Village Books
2) McNally Jackson
3) The Strand (go to rare books on third floor)
(4) Housing Works (architecturally beautiful. Surging literary crowd)
(5) The Strand in Central Park

Don't listen to these retards. NYC is the greatest city in America, possibly in the world.

>>9604923
soho house is actually trash though

brilliant marketing however, charge dumb millennials 2k a year so they can play "exclusive social club" pretend.

meanwhile the actual exclusive clubs have other qualifications othe rhtan "daddy gave me a 5k/month allowance"

>>9604858
we had two nyc meetups. went pretty well desu. might do another one in a month or two

>>9604923
>soho house
muh daddy's trust fund financed sekrit clubhouse

>cara delevigne
How Can My Buttface White Girl Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real?

>>9598665
You sound like a bitch. Brooklyn is the best borough if you know what you're doing.

>>9597182

Pasteur's Pharmacy

>>9604923
won't post pics because youre an ugly neckbeard with an imagination

>>9599727
butthurt yorknigger detected. yankees fucking suck

>>9597182

Everyone goes to The Strand but there is a MUCH better bookstore one block over: Alabaster Books. Very small, but herculean inventory for its size, and it gets a lot of rarer texts coming through.

If you're heading to Brooklyn/Queens, there are several great bookstores. I believe they are all syndicated with each other.

In the middle of Williamsburg there are Spoonbill & Sugartown and Book Thug Nation. Spoonbill gets a lot of newer texts in specialist topics like architecture, philosophy, that sort of thing. They have a decent used fiction section, but it's mostly coffee table books. Rare ones, to be sure, but not really /lit/. Still worth checking out. Book Thug Nation is the superior spot if you want rare used paperbacks, which is really all that is in circulation.

Spoonbill also has a warehouse location in Bushwick. There is a shit ton of really rare art books there if you're interested. They had a full size, first edition copy of Jung's "Red Notebook" a few months ago, to give a sense of the merchandise there. A few blocks over is Human Relations, another great, hole-in-the-wall used bookstore. There's also Topos near Woodward avenue, which has a café as well. I would avoid Molasses Books in the same area; it's more wine-bar than book store, attracts a miserable clientele for that reason, and has a routinely poor selection.

>>9606117

I also want to emphasize that the strand fucking sucks. It has an incredible inventory, but nothing you can't get for the same (full!) price on Amazon. The bookstores I have mentioned all get really great used inventory. Older paperbacks usually have better binding, especially those from the 70s and 80s, of which there are a shit ton floating around. Plus you get them much cheaper: a typical text in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought series runs 20-30 dollars; Book Thug Nation in Williamsburg has an impressive chunk of the whole series in stock used right now for ~$7.50-$15 a pop.

>>9606117
>>9606131

strand has the best collection of remainder books for $5 - $9, versus typically $10 - $15 on amazon.

alabastar books is garbage and charges $30 for "first edition" books that you can get for $8 at the strand. alabastar book sare on average 10 - 25% more expensive than Strand, while being in worse condition and used and beat up like shit, versus Strand's more lightly used or remainder copies.

>>9606148
also bookbook down in the village is pretty good for remainder copies of literary fiction books

>>9606148

kek their "remainders" are barnes-and-noble newsprint mass market toilet paper. the strand bites.

>>9606160
? i've bought a couple hundred books from strand over the past few years and they're literally all trade paperbacks. i dont buy any mass markets.

alabaster is literally kept alive by poser NYU students who think paying $20 for a cum ridden copy of a first edition book from 2012 makes them literary

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>>9598930
>deep state

>>9606187
dont get me wrong i dont think the strand is anything special, but if you put in a modicum of time browsing, they tend to be the best priced player in the city. advantages of scale and being essentially a corporate store.

>>9597182
The KGB. Tao Lin goes there occasionally. Plus, it's a bar whose entire style is based on soviet propaganda so how couldn't you want to see that?

>>9606269
the red room is cool but its literally all 60 year old people

whcih is cool by me but idk about other ppl

>>9597182
I've lived here for 20 years now and have explored every borough extensively--East Village Books is the best highbrow used bookstore. The Strand has good stuff, but also tons of junk to sift through and is a tourist trap. Bauman Rare Books is ridiculously overpriced, but worth going to drool.

Williamsburg has become Hell on Earth, but Spoonbill and Sugartown Books is very good, especially for art books. Book Thug Nation usually has some hard to find philosophy and politics works at good prices.

If you're not completely repulsed by proximity to liberal Jews, then head over to Park Slope for Community Books, which is one of the best small independent sellers of new books.

>>9597345
Barnes and Museum of art

Half the reason you should travel to any city is for art.

>>9598088
for you

>>9600269
Get the fuck out, I see you elitist Jew urban rats crawling all the time in New York, you all have weak-ass biceps and pecs, fucking GAINLESS bugmen will be purged in RaHoWa, peace be upon it

White jihad NOW