Books in New York...

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/albertine-reparue-french-bookshop-new-york:

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“I really believe in places where you can have intimacy and meet people,” he said, relaXing into his chair. “That’s why I love so much the cafés in Paris or Madrid or in Europe in general. I didn’t really find such a place, to be honest, in New York. And I didn’t find a place where one could find good French books, whether in French or in English. So I had these two things in mind—and there were a lot of people who were asking for this—and then I found photos of the building, taken when it was a home for the Payne Whitney family. I noticed a room that was a library, and I thought, Where is that? So I eXplored the building, and found that the room had become a kind of storage—there was a vacuum cleaner and so on—and it was divided into offices. And I thought, We could do something here. Pourquoi pas?”

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