Westsider Rare & Used Books, Upper West Side, Manhattan

Westsider Rare & Used Books has been in its present location on the Upper West Side of Manhattan since 1984. The owner, Dorian Thornley, recently announced last week that he would have to close his beloved #bookstore at the end of February due to slow sales in 2018. We are happy to announce that a local resident launched a GoFundMe campaign to save Westsider Books and in less than one week, it reached its $50,000 goal! Thornley now plans to keep his bookshop open for “as long as humanly possible.”