PRE-GENTRIFICATION BOOK SHOPS IN TIMES
SQUARE
Bob’s Bargain Books; Overstock Book Co. (6th ave and 42nd;
19 cent bookstore” on 42nd St.
Louis Finkelstein, Times Sq. Book Bazaar, 225-27 W 42nd St. Convicted
in 1959;
Eddie Mishkin, Pub. Outlet 254 W 42nd
(premisses raided 1962)
Main Stem Books, Inc. 1607 Bway
Radio City Books 109 W 48th; 1227 6th (Sy Gainor, Max Feingold)
P Lewis (23rd; Mo Shapiro partner)
Abbey Books Corp 259 W42nd (Wm Sherman, p.23: owned by Hyman Cohen, who
gave Martin
Hodas his start
Book Land 147 W42 (premisses raided 1968)
C & G Novelties 105 W42 (premisses raided 1963, 1968)
Klein, Henry 205 W42 (premisses raided 1962)
Abbey Book Corp 147 W 42 (see below) (premisses raided 1968)
Carpel 259 W 42nd (premisses raided 1963)
Peerless Book Shop Inc 138 W 42 (purchased by Surretsky in
1967; premisses raided 1962)
Bee See Bookshop Inc 117 W42 (premisses raided 1968)
Book Land 147 W42 (premisses raided 1968
Broadway Bookshop “Times Sq–All pubs–Hardbacks–open 8AM-3AM) 1472
(1772?) Bway.
Run by Jack Weiss
Broadway Bookshop 1543 Bway
Black Jack Books 210 W42 a store by this name was at 42nd
and 7th and was owned by Joe Brochinni, a soldier in the Tramunti crime
family. Brochinni also
had a store at 136 W42, (premisses raided 1968) managed by Ralph
Borello
Keystone Books (next store to Black Jack)
Forsythe Books, Inc 598 7th (premisses raided 1962)
L&R Books 147 W42 (premisses raided 1968)
Robbins, Louis, Inc 147 W42 (premisses raided 1968)
Whitewater Books, Inc (“erotic books, paperbacks”) 224 W42(Carl
Schonacher, Anthony Sparaco). (premisses
raided 1968)
Midtown Books, 138 W42 1967, Bruce Surretsky, Martin Hodas
