{"id":413,"date":"2018-09-20T17:21:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T17:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/blog\/?p=413"},"modified":"2019-05-30T15:27:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T15:27:04","slug":"strand-book-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/strand-book-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Strand Book Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strand Book Store opened in 1927 on Fourth Avenue on what was then called \u201cBook Row,\u201d an area that covered six city blocks and housed forty-eight bookstores. Strand&#8217;s founder Benjamin Bass was all of twenty-five years old when he began his modest, used bookstore and sought to create a place where books would be loved. <!--more-->With his son and second-generation owner, Fred Bass, Ben grew Strand into a mecca for book lovers everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Ninety years and a move over to Broadway, Strand is the sole survivor of Book Row and still run by the Bass Family (third-generation owner Nancy Bass Wyden) and is home to four floors of over 2.5 million used, new, and rare books, a wide array of bookish gifts, and fun literary events held every night of the week. From the dollar carts outside to the third floor Rare Book Room, the iconic store now stands testament a place for book lovers to explore.<\/p>\n<h3>In honor of The Village Trip Festival, Strand have made a selection of fifteen of their favorite books about the village.<\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strandbooks.com\/village-trip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VIEW THE SELECTION HERE<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strand Book Store opened in 1927 on Fourth Avenue on what was then called \u201cBook Row,\u201d an area that covered six city blocks and housed forty-eight bookstores. Strand&#8217;s founder Benjamin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/strand-book-store\/\" title=\"Strand Book Store\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,12,11,13,9],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Strand Book Store - The Village Trip<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/strand-book-store\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Strand Book Store - The Village Trip\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Strand Book Store opened in 1927 on Fourth Avenue on what was then called \u201cBook Row,\u201d an area that covered six city blocks and housed forty-eight bookstores. Strand&#8217;s founder Benjamin [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/strand-book-store\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Village Trip\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thevillagetrip\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-09-20T17:21:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-05-30T15:27:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/strand_logo_500.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Liz Thomson\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@TheVillageTrip\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@TheVillageTrip\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Liz Thomson\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/strand-book-store\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/strand-book-store\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Liz Thomson\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/#\/schema\/person\/05b7fc5c4dd8276f9969e8a82513e238\"},\"headline\":\"Strand Book Store\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-09-20T17:21:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-05-30T15:27:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/strand-book-store\/\"},\"wordCount\":184,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/strand-book-store\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/strand_logo_500.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Art\",\"Music\",\"People\",\"Places\",\"Poetry\",\"Theater\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/strand-book-store\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/strand-book-store\/\",\"name\":\"Strand Book Store - The Village Trip\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/strand-book-store\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/strand-book-store\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/strand_logo_500.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-09-20T17:21:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-05-30T15:27:04+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/strand-book-store\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/strand-book-store\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/strand-book-store\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/strand_logo_500.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/strand_logo_500.jpg\",\"width\":500,\"height\":300,\"caption\":\"Strand Book Store\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/strand-book-store\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Strand Book Store\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/\",\"name\":\"The Village Trip\",\"description\":\"An Annual Festival Celebrating Arts and Activism across Greenwich Village and the East Village\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The Village Trip Festival\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/TVT-logo-tagline-trsp.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/TVT-logo-tagline-trsp.png\",\"width\":740,\"height\":390,\"caption\":\"The Village Trip Festival\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thevillagetrip\/\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheVillageTrip\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thevillagetripfestival\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCOHsSYov6OGk40FnWNnVs6w\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/#\/schema\/person\/05b7fc5c4dd8276f9969e8a82513e238\",\"name\":\"Liz Thomson\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/823024542a227198a19ab07412e20e86?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/823024542a227198a19ab07412e20e86?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Liz Thomson\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/author\/liz-thomson\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Strand Book Store - The Village Trip","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/strand-book-store\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Strand Book Store - The Village Trip","og_description":"Strand Book Store opened in 1927 on Fourth Avenue on what was then called \u201cBook Row,\u201d an area that covered six city blocks and housed forty-eight bookstores. Strand&#8217;s founder Benjamin [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/strand-book-store\/","og_site_name":"The Village Trip","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thevillagetrip\/","article_published_time":"2018-09-20T17:21:30+00:00","article_modified_time":"2019-05-30T15:27:04+00:00","og_image":[{"width":500,"height":300,"url":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/strand_logo_500.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Liz Thomson","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@TheVillageTrip","twitter_site":"@TheVillageTrip","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Liz Thomson","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/strand-book-store\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/strand-book-store\/"},"author":{"name":"Liz Thomson","@id":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/#\/schema\/person\/05b7fc5c4dd8276f9969e8a82513e238"},"headline":"Strand Book Store","datePublished":"2018-09-20T17:21:30+00:00","dateModified":"2019-05-30T15:27:04+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/strand-book-store\/"},"wordCount":184,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/strand-book-store\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/strand_logo_500.jpg","articleSection":["Art","Music","People","Places","Poetry","Theater"],"inLanguage":"en"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/strand-book-store\/","url":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/strand-book-store\/","name":"Strand Book Store - The Village Trip","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/strand-book-store\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/strand-book-store\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/strand_logo_500.jpg","datePublished":"2018-09-20T17:21:30+00:00","dateModified":"2019-05-30T15:27:04+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/strand-book-store\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/strand-book-store\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en","@id":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/strand-book-store\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/strand_logo_500.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/strand_logo_500.jpg","width":500,"height":300,"caption":"Strand Book Store"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/strand-book-store\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Strand Book Store"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/","name":"The Village Trip","description":"An Annual Festival Celebrating Arts and Activism across Greenwich Village and the East Village","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/#organization","name":"The Village Trip Festival","url":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en","@id":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/TVT-logo-tagline-trsp.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/TVT-logo-tagline-trsp.png","width":740,"height":390,"caption":"The Village Trip Festival"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thevillagetrip\/","https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheVillageTrip","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thevillagetripfestival\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCOHsSYov6OGk40FnWNnVs6w\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/#\/schema\/person\/05b7fc5c4dd8276f9969e8a82513e238","name":"Liz Thomson","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en","@id":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/823024542a227198a19ab07412e20e86?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/823024542a227198a19ab07412e20e86?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Liz Thomson"},"url":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/author\/liz-thomson\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}