Nancy Bass Wyden, the third-generation owner of the building and the business, warns its new status could ‘destroy’ the popular store
In its 92-year history, the Strand, a New York institution and one of the world’s largest independent bookstores, has endured everything from the Great Depression to the explosion of Amazon.
It is a cruel irony, then, that having survived against the odds, the latest potential threat to the third-generation family business comes from an organisation whose purpose is supposed to be to protect.
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