More than half of TimeOut NY’s ‘Best New Bookstores’ in Brooklyn
Brooklyn has long boasted a particularly literary crowd. From Walt Whitman and Norman Mailer to Paul Auster, Jennifer Egan and Jonathan Safran Foer, some of America’s most esteemed writers come from the borough. So perhaps it is not surprising that Brooklyn also houses a rich variety of independent bookstores.
TimeOut New York on Tuesday published their list of New York City’s five best new [independent] bookstores, three of which are in Brooklyn. While Brooklyn already is home to a slew of well-known bookstores, including powerHouse Arena in DUMBO, BookCourt in Cobble Hill, WORD in Greenpoint and Greenlight in Fort Greene, literary folk have already been enjoying the unique newer establishments named in TimeOut’s list.
Molasses Books, located at 770 Hart St. in Bushwick, is a quirky used-book shop that offers fiction, nonfiction, poetry…and drinks. Customers are invited to hang out and read wine, beer, or coffee. Molasses even offers a daily happy hour from 6 to 8 p.m., and hosts readings and DJ nights. On Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, nocturnal bookworms can hang out past midnight.