Great place for lottery tickets and magazines. Also a good selection of candies. The employees…read morehere are nice and helpful.

Sama C's excellent review this morning reminds me how much I like this place. In reality, it's a…read morelegacy media museum. Racks of newspapers and magazines hoping to be adopted by anyone with enough institutional memory to think fondly on the tactile pleasures of reading something committed to paper. Nothing wrong with digital but somehow the authority of the WSJ or the Economist is slightly diminished when pixelated and converted into Ones and Zeros. An easy five stars for the spectacular anachronism that is the Garden State News.

It's just a small little side street convenience store tucked away off E95th and 2nd Ave. Nothing…read morespecial but does the trick. Its nice to have these spots around to grab a quick cold drink out of the fridge, if you need a snack, or some toiletries and personal products.

This convenience store just opened yesterday. Since yesterday I've spoken to three employees…read moreincluding the owner. They are here to meet the needs of the neighborhood 24 hours a day. It's their grand opening. Yesterday they were giving out bottles of Poland Springs water. This morning I was offered a coffee. I've already had mine but it sure smelled good! It's very well stocked but they are still in process. I'm sure I'll be back. Just to let you know it's here.

The mere fact that Hola Delicious Mini Market offers a decent selection of craft beers makes me a…read morebig fan. Perhaps I'm lending undue weight to this component of a bodega, but having grown up around bodegas as a boy in Queens, I am always impressed when a neighborhood establishment gives a nod to the exceptional, the uncommon and the aspirational beyond whatever malt liquor Billy Dee Williams used to hawk back in the day. The grocery items are varied and plentiful, the coffee is fresh and the prices aren't quite gouge-your-eyes-out expensive. Back to the beer: Hola Delicious Mini Market (which, by the way, is a hilarious and spirited name for a corner bodega in Bushwick) carries no less than four varieties of Lagunitas, the small craft brewer in Southern California. How cool is that? Yes, I understand that craft beers in bodegas are becoming more commonplace, especially with the gradual gentrification of the neighborhood that used to be known more for "Murder Avenue" (Myrtle Avenue's nickname in the 1980s) than for its culinary fare. But this one detail sent my head awhirl. I especially have a soft spot for Lagunitas ever since they sponsored a music/art event I hosted in my yet-unrenovated Bushwick house back in 2007, and will forever be a fan of their wonderful, delicious and innovative brews. By the transitive property, I tend to be a fan of anywhere I can find it.

It's a very good looking store they make good sandwiches and they carry variety of merchandise…read more.they have good craft beer .

The guy who works there is a nice person. Very kind. He is a cool person. I like going to that…read moreplace all the time for some coffee and other things too

Convenient store right by the A train and Air Train Stop in Howard Beach. I usually get my lotto…read morefrom here. The have candy, soda, greeting cards, typical Candy Store stuff. I can walk here so if I don't want to drive to the store this is the place. Great stop before or after work coming from subway. Metered Parking nearby. Can get busy around evening rush hour.

You've arrived at 74th St/Roosevelt Ave in Jackson Heights. You walk a few blocks up Roosevelt Ave…read more to 80th St. and make a right. You'll see them. Racks of books on sale outside and a small hole the in wall with the name of the business: Libreria Barco de Papel, which means "The Paper Boat Bookstore" Behold the last brick and mortar true Spanish Bookstore in New York City. A few years into the 21st century, old business models started to conspicuously disappear from common life. The world hardly noticed, me included, but in the blink of 2,000 days, I now get my indie movie fix from my streaming device at home, and having picked up Kurosawa's "Seven Samurais" from the Blockbuster at 9th St. and Broadway now seems like a distant memory. It was 2006. So it was stopping by Lectorum (the famed Spanish Bookstore in West 14th St.) on a perfect summer afternoon after work all those years ago. Back "then", places like Coliseum Books, the Gotham Mart or Lectorum seemed unmovable institutions that represented the very heart and core of the most cosmopolitan city in the world. It took only a few years more for all of them to be gone forever. In the winter of 2006, on a snowy night, me and my ex GF were taking a shortcut to her apt. in Woodside when I saw Libreria Barco de Papel for the first time. It was Sunday, about 9:00pm and its isolated and melancholic location, not to mention the fact that it was open, caught my eye, aroused my curiosity and commanded my motion. I entered and browsed the selection of books in awe. That night, Libreria Barco de Papel gave me Alfonso Reyes, without knowing that I was walking away with the writer who Borges himself called his master. I also picked my first Valle-Inclan and Zorrilla. I never saw or found Libreria Barco de Papel again. Six years later, while on a haze of nostalgia remembering those summer days gone by, I remembered the unassuming Spanish bookstore in Elmhurst and frantically tried to search for it on the Internet with no success. It dawned on me then that with Lectorum gone, perhaps the last all-Spanish bookstore in New York had closed its doors, and that alarmed me. Here was displayed either one of two things; the NYC Spanish readership had all switched to Kindle, or the number of Spanish readers had dramatically decreased from one generation to the next despite the hike of Latin peoples demographic growth. Either way, a loss of bookstores now is a blow to culture, although I'm sure that in a 100 years this process will appear to readers of history as unavoidable. Everything human-made is just like Libreria Barco de Papel ominously heralds in its chosen name: a paper boat at sea destined to be dissolved by the oceans of time. But then, as I was about to give up my googling, a stay of execution to old ways came in the form of a directory entry on a random internet site. There was this Spanish bookstore tucked away on 80th St in Elmhurst. I asked for a day off, my birthday, and I walked inside and rejoiced in deep emotion. This was the one. Nothing had changed. The near-mint condition tomes of the Coleccion Austral Classics from the 1960's were there. The Catedra Edition ones printed in Madrid in the 90's with which I grew up with were also there, alongside the more modern Alfaguara ones. I happily shelled $70.00 USD as my self-gift and I have paid my King's Fifth to the bookstore often since then. Ortega & Gasset, Benito Perez Galdos, Baltasar Gracian, Juan Leon Mera; nothing can replace the feeling of browsing in silence and barely touching with your fingertips the spines of books that contain untold wisdom, pain, thoughts that elevate our often farcical flesh into anything but. The smell of old pages, the selection process which goes both ways, because books mysteriously select you just as you select them. Libreria has since gone to Facebook, and every day it selects a Spanish poem or a piece of trivia from an author I didn't knew and it teaches me something. It also holds symposiums and supports poetry and readings in the community. It has since gained adepts and hopefully, customers. And while yes, I do have a Kindle (for books long out of print), and yes, there are 2 more Spanish bookstores in New York I've found since; one in Spanish Harlem and one in Inwood; both of the "New Age" Kind, while Libreria Barco de Papel is indeed, the last true brick and mortar Spanish Bookstore in New York City. And hence I'll stand by it for as long as I'm a New Yorker. And nothing could be more apt, more rewarding, than to be its first reviewer.

I'm going to add in a review of this bookstore, which is right down the street from my home. This…read moreis an old school Spanish bookstore, and we are so grateful it's there. It has a good selection of affordable children's books, but many are in the back storage space so you have to be prepared to dig around. It takes time, as it's disorganized back there - better to go in open to whatever treasure you can find. On the up side, it is very inexpensive. I bought an entire set of Stellaluna in Spanish for my son's bilingual class of 24 students. Great place to browse.

This is the perfect place for official subway memorabilia, so I picked up some MetroCard merch…read morebecause it might become rare soon. I also got the subway token collector's set, with five different styles of subway tokens that were circulated between 1953 and 2003 - in a collectors case and certificate of authenticity.

Went to grab something for my husband who's a bit of a transportation geek. It was cute. Wish it…read morehad more selection of swag

Best local independent bookstore! The staff have excellent recommendations and there is something…read morefor everyone. Love the convenient location right in the the middle of Maplewood village. They're open later than most other stores, so it's a great place to browse and pick up books and gifts while waiting for a table. The employee book recommendations are top notch.

I've been to a number of bookstores, and in terms of neatness, organization, and atmosphere, this…read moreone is pretty standard. It's a very lovely space, and the parking is not terrible (there is a lot down the street by the train station). I have visited this bookstore about three times, and each time, I am turned off by the lack of friendliness from the staff. No one has ever greeted me upon entering or said goodbye on the way out. The only time I ever heard someone greet a customer is to tell him to put his drink away. Even though this store is about five minutes from where I live, it is not my go-to.

I LOVE this bookstore. It's so different from all the rest, like me ‍. Love that it seems to be…read morebooks/artists/authors that are off the beaten path, mostly focused on what actually matters in life or at least topics that make one think. Art is so important and it feels like an expression of the collective soul coming here. You won't find any mainstream bestsellers here. It's a good chance to open your mind and explore genres and topics that you wouldn't normally think of. I ended up grabbing 3 books, all very different. 1 poetry, 1 photo book, and 1 handwritten book that I was oddly drawn to like a magnet.

I have never seen so much unique art in my life and have never felt more inspired. I absolutely…read morelove this spot and found my favorite zines of all time. I feel as if i have discovered a hidden gem