Bluestockings (bookstore)

Bluestockings is a radical bookstore, café, and activist center located in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City. It started as a volunteer-supported and collectively owned bookstore; and is currently a worker-owned bookstore with mutual aid offerings/free store. The store started in 1999 as a feminist bookstore and was named for a group of Enlightenment intellectual women, the Bluestockings. Its founding location was 172 Allen Street, and is currently located a few blocks east on 116 Suffolk Street.

Bluestockings
Formation1999 (1999)
FounderKathryn Welsh
TypeBookstore worker coop
Location
  • New York City, United States
  • 116 Suffolk Street, Lower East Side
Area served
New York metropolitan area
Websitewww.bluestockings.com
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