That's very sad. It's a landmark and a wonderful place.<p>Though I'll admit I never understood how it lasted as long as it did. Its "miles of books" stand on some very expensive land. As I understand it, a lot of its business came from providing books in bulk to designers, theaters, etc. who want books for looking at rather than reading.<p>It's the place an interior decorator could go to fill a bookshelf in your SoHo apartment with white books. Which is a niche that needs filling, but it could be filled almost as well from a cheap warehouse in Jersey.<p>It's also a wonderful place to go, both as a regular bookstore and for browsing those miles of mildewy stacks. I highly recommend its rare book room (which I suspect will survive separately, but perhaps no longer be quite so accessible as it is now). So good luck, Strand.