paulkatcher:

Just as we learn that Trader Joe’s on West 72 Street has an official opening date of Sept. 20, we receive the bad news that the Barnes & Noble megastore at 66th and Broadway will be closing due to high rents.

There’s something about a trip to a huge bookstore that always leaves me inspired to learn and do. Knowledge is power, and that store was a multi-floor power vault. (With your occasional “Confessions of an Heiress” by Paris Hilton thrown in.)

So, yeah, this is sadder than, say, losing a Foot Locker.

Thankfully, B&N says it will continue to seek an alternate space on the UWS.

And now we can start the pool on how long the Lincoln Triangle space will go unoccupied.