It's right around the corner from me & I was excited to check it out. Even before I'd gone in, I tried to answer my friend David's question: Why do today's bookstores look like hair salons?
This new one certainly does & has absolutely no surprises. Not one book of poetry that I have or want, all safe timid choices, like Louise Gluck. The history section was full of blandly ugly titles on what's wrong with white feminism (Faux Feminism) & what's wrong with Israel (too many titles to count).
The young woman who worked there didn't show a spark of interest at a customer coming in ~ it may as well have been a beauty salon & I an unlikely candidate for improvement.
I wonder whose idea this was & what they thought they could bring to the very sophisticated readers of lower Manhattan.
According to Papa Google:
Vibe: Minimalist, curated, aims to keep the city curious and layered.
Founders: Lulu & Nika.