The Bronx is home to 1.4 million people, and soon it will be the only borough in New York City that doesn’t have a book store. The Barnes & Noble located in the Bay Plaza Mall is scheduled to be shuttered due to a dispute over the lease. Prestige Properties raised the rent of the bookseller beyond the point where they’d be able to afford the space, according to David Deason, Barnes & Noble’s vice president of development.
“To me, it’s an insult,” said Amelia Zaino, 24, a Co-op City resident who has started an online petition to keep the store open. “They say the Bronx is booming, but in a way its the same old Bronx.”
The Bronx lost its last independent bookstore in 2011.
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