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When Gothamist was a wee middle school student on the Upper West Side we stumbled into the unique and wonderful experience of finding a bookstore to call ones own. In a perfect world everyone would know the feeling of a musty store where they could walk in, chat with clerks and other patrons, flip through a few books, learn something and feel completely at home. That bookstore, in our case, was the Applause Bookstore on 71st Street. One of the great theater bookstores it had a lot of everything for everyone (well, if you were interested in theater or film). But after 25 years the curtain is coming down on the store which in recent years has found much of its business sapped by the Internet, corporate bookstores, and patrons changing interests.

Jeff Ayers, Forbidden Planet

David Rees, Cartoonist