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East Side Bookstore34 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 1000340.728640-73.9883800
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Eighth Street Bookshop17 W 8th St, New York, NY 1001140.732880-73.9973101
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Paperbook Gallery399 6th Ave, New York, NY 1001440.733490-74.0000102
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Peace Eye Bookstore383 E 10th St, New York, NY 1000940.726200-73.9782703
East Side Bookstore
34 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10003
Along with Ed Sanders’s Peace Eye Bookstore, the East Side Bookstore on St. Mark’s Place was one of the key hubs of distribution for mimeo poetry zines.
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Eighth Street Bookshop
17 W 8th St, New York, NY 10011
The Eighth Street Bookshop in Greenwich Village was frequented by Ed Sanders, Susan Sontag, and Philip Roth, and was where the young poet Andrei Codrescu worked when he moved downtown in 1967.
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Paperbook Gallery
399 6th Ave, New York, NY 10014
Another jewel in the downtown’s literary crown was the Paperbook Gallery, on Sixth Avenue around the corner from the Eighth Street Bookshop, which stayed open until midnight—a practice that encouraged people to socialize.
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Peace Eye Bookstore
383 E 10th St, New York, NY 10009
Peace Eye Bookstore—where proprietor Ed Sanders used to crank out printed matter on his mimeo machine and rehearse with his irreverent underground rock band the Fugs—was located between Avenues B and C, on East Tenth Street.
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