We probably take our brick-and-mortar bookstores for granted nowadays, in the age of Amazon and other online outlets who pander to the quicker and cheaper desires of us Americans.
But this awesome lady said Oh Hell No when the last bookstore in the Bronx announced it was closing.
Noëlle Santos, 30 years old and a lifelong Bronx dweller, wasn’t going to stand for that. In 2014, when Santos heard that the Barnes & Noble would close at the end of 2016, she thought: “Okay, I have two years to get it together and get us a bookstore,” she tells Co.Exist in an interview. She came up with the concept of a bookstore-wine bar called the Lit. Bar, which, once she finishes a crowdfunding campaign next month, she plans to open in the South Bronx by the summer.
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