Bookstores in New York City: list of 157 free CSV

How many bookstores are in New York City?

OpenStreetMap lists 157 named bookstores inside the New York City city boundary (1,218 km²), extract of 7 Nov 2026. 68% of the records list a website and 60% a phone number; 48 named bookstores have no website on the public record. The biggest clusters are around Lower Manhattan (42), Midtown (16), Flatbush (15).

Examples on the list: 192 Books, Albertine, All Eyes on Egipt.

Edited on the map in the 90 days before the extract: 21 records, including Every Thing Goes Book Cafe, Climax Books, Kayrock, NYU Bookstore.

157named bookstores
68%list a website
48no website listed
21neighbourhoods
Download all 157 as CSV Get emails, phones and ratings

Data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, extract of 7 Nov 2026. The CSV is under the same licence.

50 of the 157 bookstores, A to Z

on the map recordmissing from the recordPicked from 21 neighbourhoods; filter below to search all 157

Showing a sample of 50. Change a filter to search all 157.

Bookstores in New York City, OpenStreetMap extract of 7 Nov 2026.
Business Street and area Website Phone Hours
192 Books 192 10th Avenue, Midtown 192books.com +12122554022
Albertine 972 5th Avenue, Upper East Side albertine.com +1 332 228 2238
All Eyes on Egiptnot edited since 2021 717 Bushwick Avenue, Bushwick unwonline.org +1-718-452-9329
Anyone Comicsnot edited since 2021 1216 Union Street, Brooklyn anyonecomics.com +1-347-350-8422
Argosynot edited since 2022 116 East 59th Street, Manhattan argosybooks.com +1 212-753-4455
Astoria Bookshop 36-19 30th Street, Long Island City astoriabookshop.com +1-718-278-2665
Aum Shanti 230 East 14th Street, Midtown aumshantibookshop.com +1-212-260-2866
Barnes & Noble 2655 Richmond Avenue, Staten Island stores.barnesandnoble.com +1 718-355-6033
Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks 28 East 2nd Street, Lower Manhattan bonnieslotnickcookbooks.com +1-212-989-8962
Book Club 197 East 3rd Street, Lower Manhattan bookclubbar.com +1-646-678-4160
Book Culture 2915 Broadway, Harlem bookculture.com +1-646-403-3000
bookbooknot edited since 2018 266 Bleecker Street, Lower Manhattan bookbooknyc.com +1 212-807-8655
bookculture 536 West 112th Street, Harlem bookculture.com +1-212-865-1588
BOOKOFF New York 49 West 45th Street, Midtown bookoffusa.com +1 212-685-1410
Boulevard Books & Cafenot edited since 2019 7518 13th Avenue, New Utrecht social page +1-718-680-5881
Breaking Barriers Christian Bookstore and Coffee Shop Far Rockaway, no street on record +1-631-504-4697
Cafe con Libros 724 Prospect Place, Brooklyn cafeconlibrosbk.com +1-347-460-2838
Catland 987 Flushing Avenue, Bushwick catlandbooks.com +1-718-418-9393
Clown show prison books & fine objects 100 Freeman St, Long Island City clownshowprison.com
Community Bookstore 143 7th Avenue, Flatbush communitybookstore.net +1-718-783-3075
Eichler's 5004 13th Avenue, New Utrecht shopeichlers.com +1 718-874-9771
Every Thing Goes Book Cafe 208 Bay Street, New Utrecht etgstores.com +1-718-4478256
Fordham University Lincoln Center Campus Bookstore 113 West 60th Street, Manhattan fordham.edu +1-212-636-6080
Fountain Bookshop 803 West 187th Street, Washington Heights fountainbookshop.com +1-646-438-9218
Greenlight Bookstore 686 Fulton Street, Williamsburg greenlightbookstore.com +1-718-246-0200
Head Hinot edited since 2022 146 Flushing Avenue, Williamsburg headhi.net +1-917-909-0005
Hive Mind Books 219 Irving Avenue, Bushwick hivemindbooks.com +1-347-487-0033
Hudson Far Rockaway, no street on record
Judaica Classics By Doina 1248 Lexington Avenue, Upper East Side judaicaclassics.com +1 212-722-4271
Kew & Willow Books 81-63 Lefferts Boulevard, Queens kewandwillow.com +1-718-441-0009
Lofty Pigeon Books 743 Church Avenue, Flatbush loftypigeonbooks.com +1-347-240-3816
Logos Bookstorenot edited since 2020 1575 York Avenue, Upper East Side logosbookstorenyc.com +1 212-517-9272
McNally Jackson Elmhurst, no street on record
Mekor Judaicanot edited since 2021 1973 Coney Island Avenue, Flatlands mekorjudaica.com +1-718-627-4385
Queens College Bookstore Queens, no street on record
Quimby's Bookstore 536 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg quimbysnyc.com +1-347-889-5569
Revolution Books 437 Malcolm X Boulevard, Harlem revolutionbooksnyc.org +1 212-691-3345
Riverdale Hebrew Books and Giftsnot edited since 2021 3706 Riverdale Avenue, The Bronx
Saint Pauls Gifts & Books Staten Island, no street on record
Silver Age Comics Woodside, no street on record
Sisters Uptown Bookstore 1942 Amsterdam Avenue, Washington Heights sistersuptownbookstore.com +1-212-862-3680
Strand Bookstore 2020 Broadway, Upper West Side strandbooks.com
Taylor & Co. 1021 Cortelyou Road, Flatbush taylorcobooks.com +1-347-425-7770
The Strand 450 Columbus Avenue, Upper West Side strandbooks.com +1-212-473-1452
Turn the Page Againnot edited since 2017 39-15A Bell Boulevard, Flushing
Westsider Rare & Used Books 2246 Broadway, Upper West Side westsiderrecords.com +1 212-362-0706
Word Up Community Bookshop 2113 Amsterdam Avenue, Washington Heights wordupbooks.com +1-347-688-4456
World’s borough bookstore 34-06 73rd St, Woodside theworldsboroughbookshop.com
Z Berman Books - Flatbushnot edited since 2021 1586 Coney Island Avenue, Flatlands zbermanbooks.com +1-718-258-1955
世界書局 136-19-136-29 38th Avenue, Flushing wjbookny.com +1-718-445-2661

Download the full CSV (157 rows)

Also as Excel, GeoJSON, KML (maps and spreadsheets; same rows, same licence).

4 more records have no name on the map and are left out of the list.

Bookstores in New York City with no website listed

27 of 145 named non-chain bookstores; 12 below, the rest in the filter or the CSV.

  • Books206 Mercer Street, Lower Manhattan
  • Cups and Books2024 Bedford Avenue, Flatbush
  • East Village Books99 Saint Marks Place, Lower Manhattan, phone listed
  • Hypno-Tronic Comics156 Stuyvesant Place, New Utrecht
  • James Cummins Bookseller699 Madison Avenue, Manhattan
  • Koryo books35 West 32nd Street, Midtown, phone listed
  • La Librairie des Enfants163 East 92nd Street, Upper East Side, phone listed
  • McNally Jackson Books76 North 4th Street, Williamsburg, phone listed
  • Polonia Ksiegarnia882 Manhattan Avenue, Williamsburg, phone listed
  • The Book Cellar1465 York Avenue, Upper East Side, phone listed
  • The Lit BarAlexander Avenue, Harlem
  • Topos Too59-22 Myrtle Avenue, Bushwick

Show all of themEvery kind of business in New York City without a website

Where they are

Map of the 157 bookstores inside the New York City boundary; most sit around Lower Manhattan, Midtown, Flatbush.
website listedno website, or social page only

Busiest streets

  • Broadway, Upper West Side3

By neighbourhood

Black: website listed.

9 more neighbourhoods in the filter above.

By ZIP code

  • 100037
  • 112225
  • 113855
  • 100094
  • 100134
  • 100123
  • 100243
  • 100323
  • 101283
  • 112153

Chains and non-chain businesses

7% of the records are branches of a chain or brand; 149 are not.

  • Barnes & Noble7
  • McNally Jackson3

What the records hold

161 map records.
FieldRecordsShare
Street address12779%
Website (own site)10867%
Social or directory page only11%
Phone on file9760%
Email on file (not shown)2817%
Opening hours11471%
Chain or brand branch127%
Edited since January 202410465%

Half the records were last edited in Aug 2024 or later.

Why other sites show a different number

  • Coverage. 161 mapped; Google Maps holds more.
  • Boundary. 1,218 km² (map); metro searches count more.
  • Names. 12 branches each count once; 4 unnamed left out.

Get the complete list with emails, phones and ratings

Businesses to contact, not customer enquiries ("leads" for your own business are a different product).

Suggested source for this list

Google Maps Business Lead & Email Finder

It searches Google Maps for the same category and city and can add emails from each business website.

  • Emails
  • Phone numbers
  • Websites
  • Star ratings
  • Review counts
  • Social profiles
  • no opening hours

One run: about $0.56 to $1.23 for 157 to 840 rows ($0.99 per 1,000 + $0.40 start fee (4 GB run)), plus platform usage ($0.80/hour).

Free plan prices; it includes $5 a month (Apify pricing).

How to run it, step by step

  1. Open Google Maps Business Lead & Email Finder on the Apify Store and sign in or create a free Apify account.
  2. Paste these 7 searches into Search phrases, one per line; the neighbourhood searches catch businesses a citywide search misses.
    1. bookstores in New York City, NY
    2. bookstores in Lower Manhattan, New York City, NY
    3. bookstores in Midtown, New York City, NY
    4. bookstores in Flatbush, New York City, NY
    5. bookstores in Bushwick, New York City, NY
    6. bookstores in Williamsburg, New York City, NY
    7. bookstores in Upper East Side, New York City, NY
  3. Set Country: United States; US state: New York.
  4. Set Maximum leads to 900.
  5. Start it and download the results as CSV or Excel.

Open on the Apify Store What this source returns

Or search by ZIP code (20 searches)
  1. bookstores in 10003, New York City, NY
  2. bookstores in 11222, New York City, NY
  3. bookstores in 11385, New York City, NY
  4. bookstores in 10009, New York City, NY
  5. bookstores in 10013, New York City, NY
  6. bookstores in 10012, New York City, NY
  7. bookstores in 10024, New York City, NY
  8. bookstores in 10032, New York City, NY
  9. bookstores in 10128, New York City, NY
  10. bookstores in 11215, New York City, NY
  11. bookstores in 10002, New York City, NY
  12. bookstores in 10011, New York City, NY
  13. bookstores in 10014, New York City, NY
  14. bookstores in 10018, New York City, NY
  15. bookstores in 10023, New York City, NY
  16. bookstores in 10025, New York City, NY
  17. bookstores in 10301, New York City, NY
  18. bookstores in 11201, New York City, NY
  19. bookstores in 11211, New York City, NY
  20. bookstores in 11216, New York City, NY

Other ways to build or enrich it

Prices on the Free plan: per 1,000 results plus a start fee per GB of run memory, plus Apify platform usage.
SourceWhat it addsPrice
Google Maps Business Lead Finder with Email & Social Links a second Google Maps route with a different set of columns $0.99 per 1,000 + $0.10/GB start
Yelp Business Search & Review Scraper Yelp listings with ratings and review counts $0.99 per 1,000 + $0.10/GB start
Website Contact Page Email & Phone Crawler reads the websites in the free CSV and returns the emails and phone numbers published there $0.99 per 1,000 + $0.10/GB start
Facebook Business Page Finder by Keyword & City finds the Facebook pages of businesses that have no website $0.99 per 1,000 + $0.10/GB start

Bookstores in other cities

CityNamedWebsite listed
Bookstores in Chicago6854%
Bookstores in San Francisco6454%
Bookstores in Los Angeles6241%
Bookstores in Seattle5879%
Bookstores in Portland4454%
Bookstores in Washington, DC3866%
Bookstores in San Diego3542%
Bookstores in Denver3053%
Bookstores in Philadelphia3061%
Bookstores in Austin2752%

Every city for bookstores

More lists in New York City

All New York City lists

How New York City compares: the local digital gap in New York City, every kind of business with and without a website on the map.

Embed this list

Show this free list on your own site: paste the code into any page. It is a small static card with no scripts, cookies or tracking, and it updates when the list does.

Preview the card

The card credits OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and links back to this list on getalistof.com.

Questions

How many bookstores are there in New York City?

At least 161: that is how many OpenStreetMap has inside the New York City city boundary, 157 with a name (extract of 7 Nov 2026). 12 are chain branches. Google Maps usually lists more, because more owners add themselves there.

Which part of New York City has the most bookstores?

Lower Manhattan (42), then Midtown (16) and Flatbush (15); the busiest street is Broadway, Upper West Side (3). 21 neighbourhoods have at least one.

How many bookstores in New York City have no website?

48 of the 157 named bookstores have no website on their map record; 27 of them are not chain branches. Another 1 list only a social media page as their website.

How do I get phone numbers and emails for bookstores in New York City?

Run Google Maps Business Lead & Email Finder with the search "bookstores in New York City, NY" plus 6 neighbourhood searches such as "bookstores in Lower Manhattan, New York City, NY". One run costs about $0.56 to $1.23 ($0.40 start fee (4 GB run) included), plus platform usage, for 157 to 840 rows.

Sources

Using the list: credit OpenStreetMap contributors and keep changed copies under the ODbL; follow the outreach rules where you send. Licence and limits.

Map extract 7 Nov 2026Next refresh after 2 Dec 2026Data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL