Strand Book Store

Strand Bookstore

Industry	Specialty retail
Founded	1927 (1927)
Founder	Ben Bass
Headquarters	New York City, United States
Number of locations	1 store, 1 kiosk
Area served	New York metropolitan area
Products	New, used and rare books
Owner	Fred Bass, Nancy Bass Wyden
Number of employees	about 240
Website	http://www.strandbooks.com/

Coordinates: 40°44′00″N 73°59′27″W / 40.7333°N 73.9908°W / 40.7333; -73.9908

The Strand Bookstore is an independent bookstore located at 828 Broadway, at the corner of East 12th Street in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, two blocks south of Union Square. In addition to the main location, the store's Central Park kiosk is open on fair weather days at the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 60th Street. The company's slogan is "18 Miles Of Books", as featured on its stickers, T-shirts, and other merchandise. In 2016, The New York Times called The Strand "the undisputed king of the city’s independent bookstores."

The Strand, which was named after the street in London, was opened by Benjamin Bass in 1927 on nearby Fourth Avenue, which had at the time 48 bookstores, in what was known as "Book Row", which was established as early as 1890, and which started to disappear around the 1930s and again in the 1950s, due to rent increases. Bass's son Fred took over the business in 1956 and the next year moved the store to the present location at the corner of East 12th Street and Broadway. Fred's daughter Nancy Bass Wyden – who is married to U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon – is co-owner of the store. The store occupies three and a half floors, using half a floor for offices and one additional floor as warehouse space. As of June 2017, the store had around 2.5 million books,