East Village Books & Records

Nice selection for a dingy basement shop - however with the Strand just a few short blocks away you can get virtually any book this shop offers at half the price down the street.

Also the proprietor and his flunkeys are pretty much cave troglodytes. If you ask for them for a paper bag (you know, to take home the item you just bought) they look at you as if you asked for their first-born child. Very negative atmosphere and don't even bother trying sell books there, it's a complete waste of time.