Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Book-Off will bring its discounted goods to Astor Place

Book-Off, Japan's largest chain of used bookstores, is opening an outpost on the SE corner of Broadway and Astor Place. 

The store, which also has a location on West 45th Street (as well as an anime lab in Brooklyn), is known for its discounted books, DVDs, CDs, video games, video consoles, manga, J-pop, etc. They will also buy the products above. 

The 45th Street outpost is three levels. We're not sure how much retail space they're taking here, the previous Vitamin Shoppe.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great! They are the only store I know off where you can get reasonable prices on used Criterion DVD's.

Chelsea Frazer said...

I’m excited about the special edition books..assuming it’s like the one on 45th

Eden Bee said...

Sounds good to me!

Anonymous said...

Very close to the Strand.

While wonderful to have another bookshop, concerned about impact on Strand.

In the meantime, many other areas with no bookshops….

Anonymous said...

I wonder if this location will also compete with 2nd Street, Book Off in Japan also sells 2nd hand clothes, baby items and luxury goods

Anonymous said...

East Village Books on St Marks Place has lots of used Criterion DVDs and Blu-Ray too