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Community Bookstore (Cobble Hill)
Community Bookstore was a bookstore in the Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, Cobble Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. It opened in 1974 in Brooklyn Heights and moved to Cobble Hill after its rent spiked in 1985. Owner John Scioli operated it until retiring and closing the store in 2016. It was known as an atypical crowded bookstore filled to capacity with stacks of books accumulated via community donations. Description The store's space was known for being filled with stacks of books to the point of posing a challenge to shoppers. The ''Wall Street Journal'' characterized it as a place where "books are stacked floor-to-ceiling" and "shelves filled with books rise above a floor piled waist-high with seemingly endless volumes. Underfoot, between paperbacks, worn carpeting can occasionally be glimpsed." ''The New York Times'' said that it's "not the kind of place one goes for the latest best sellers, literary magazines, a coffee or an author talk [but rather] a place to rummage and rumi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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A community is a Level of analysis, social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place (geography), place, Norm (social), norms, religion, values, Convention (norm), customs, or Identity (social science), identity. Communities may share a sense of place (geography), place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, town, or neighbourhood) or in virtual space through communication platforms. Durable good relations that extend beyond immediate genealogical ties also define a sense of community, important to their identity, practice, and roles in social institutions such as family, home, work, government, society, or humanity at large. Although communities are usually small relative to personal social ties, "community" may also refer to large group affiliations such as nation, national communities, international community, international communities, and virtual community, virtual communities. The English-language word "community" derives from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
