THE NEIGHBORHOOD

Bonnie's Garden and fire escape Apring flowers in Bonnie's Garden

Seasonal window displays were a feature at my old shop; my new place doesn’t have a display window but it does have a charming garden out back!

Thanks to Jae-Eun Chung for the photo!

Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks is one of the few independent bookstores remaining in the Village, but hardly the only one. Check the list below for more.

Hungry? The East Village is packed with restaurants of every kind, most of them easily affordable. My preferences run to the old-timers, such as B & H Dairy Restaurant (2nd Ave/St. Mark’s) and Veselka (2nd Ave./9th St.). Head south of Houston Street for old Lower East Side mainstays Russ & Daughters (the original “appetizing” store at Houston/Orchard, with a café on Orchard near Delancey), Yonah Schimmel’s Knishes (Houston/2nd Ave), Katz’s Delicatessen (Houston/Ludlow) and Economy Candy (Rivington/Essex) — one of my favorite places in the entire city. For traditional Italian pastries in a century-old setting, visit Veniero’s (324 E. 11th St., off First Ave.), and for Old-World Jewish breads and pastries, head to Moishe’s Bakery way over east at 504 Grand St. (if your hat starts to float, you’ve gone too far).

OTHER GREENWICH VILLAGE BOOKSTORES —
VISIT THEM ALL!

Alabaster Books
(out-of-print)
122 Fourth Ave. (between 12-13th Sts.)
212-982-3550

Bluestockings
(new books, café)
172 Allen St. (Stanton St.)
212-777-6028

Codex
(out-of-print)
1 Bleecker St. (just off Bowery)
http://www.codexbooks.info

Dashwood Books
(books on photography)
33 Bond St. (Lafayette St.)
212-387-8520

East Village Books
(out-of-print)
99 St. Marks Pl. (Ave. A)
212-477-8647

Housing Works Bookstore
(out-of-print, café)
126 Crosby St. (just south of Houston)
212-334-3324

Left Bank Books
(o.p., rare)
41 Perry St. (Bleecker)
877-212-6778

Karma Bookstore
(art books)
136 E 3rd St.(Ave. A)
212-390-9279

Mast Books
(out-of-print)
72 Avenue A
646-370-1114

McNally Jackson
(new books, café)
134 Prince St. (West Broadway)
212-274-1160

Mercer Street Books & Records
(out-of-print)
206 Mercer Street (just south of Bleecker)
212-505-8615

Pageant Print Shop
(old prints and maps)
69 East 4th St. (Bowery)
212-674-5296

Printed Matter
(artist book, zines, etc.))
38 St. Marks Pl. (2nd Ave.)
646-590-3247

Strand Books
(o.p., new)
Broadway and 12th St.
212-473-1452 open til 10:30

Sweet Pickle Books
(o.p., new)
47 Orchard St. (Grand/Hester)
halfsour@sweetpicklebooks.com

Three Lives & Company
(new books)
temporarily at 238 West 10th St. (Bleecker/Hudson)
212-741-2069

Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Books
(new, remainders)
Closed for now--back soon, we hope!