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POTW: Civic Center Book Shop: "For Lovers of Old Books"

Gina Murrell

[Civic Center Book Shop, Pierrepont Street near Fulton Street], December 15, 1958, gelatin silver print,  V1974.4.886; John D. Morrell photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History. 
"He’s sort of a crazy guy," said Walter Goldwater about Irving Binkin, the proprietor of Civic Center Book Shop, in New York City Bookshops in the 1930s and 1940s: The Recollections of Walter Goldwater. "And has a great big bookshop with a lot of stuff in it." The "great big bookshop with a lot of stuff in it," Civic Center Book Shop was…