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New York bookstore clashes with de Blasio over historic landmark designation: ‘It’s really no honor’
The owner of a famous bookstore in New York City is pushing back on a decision to commemorate it with a historic landmark designation, blasting it as “eminent domain” and a “bureaucratic straitjacket.” Nancy Bass Wyden, owner of the ‘Strand Bookstoe’ — one of the few remaining in the city — is “already a landmark” and that the historic designation …
Strand Bookstore Owner Protests New York City Landmarking : NPR
Fred Bass, who died in 2018, and his daughter Nancy Bass Wyden sort used books at the Strand Bookstore on Feb. 21, 2007. Mary Altaffer/AP hide caption toggle caption Mary Altaffer/AP Fred Bass, who died in 2018, and his daughter Nancy Bass Wyden sort used books at the Strand Bookstore on Feb. 21, 2007. Mary …
