Two years after closing its East 86th St. store in New York City, Barnes & Noble is opening a new location on the Upper East Side, Patch.com reported.
Slated to open in spring 2023, the store will be located at 1556 Third Ave., at 87th St., in a space that used to belong to a Duane Reade. The bookstore will span roughly 8,000 square feet--much smaller than the 55,000-square-foot store B&N closed in 2020. At the time, the company said that store was "too large, and too expensive."
"It is very good news to bring our bookstore back to the Upper East Side," said B&N CEO James Daunt. "It was very sad to close in the depths of the pandemic and especially pleasing now to reopen with one that is so dramatically more attractive."