Greenlight announcement in the news!

It's fun to watch the buzz starting about our new location! Here's a bit of who's been talking about Greenlight Bookstore:

Brownstoner got the jump on coverage with a great post about "the little bookstore that could" (and a very interesting and energetic discussion in the comments)

Fort Greene's own New York Times Local blog had a bit (written by yours truly).

Shelf Awareness gave us a number of column inches and quoted from our blog.

The book blog at Gather.com (written by longtime indie publishing stalwart Chris Steib) starts with the great line "Print is dead...long live print!", and predicts that Greenlight "is sure to become a local favorite and a worthwhile trip to Fort Greene."

Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn reported the story -- timely and local-focused as always.

New York Press gave us some ink on its staff blog.

Bookselling This Week (the American Booksellers Association newsletter) also gave us some column space.

Galleycat posted the news, noting that the store will be a block away from one of the popular literary blog's editors (hope to see you at events!)

HTML Giant has the link (and a very interesting comment discussion)

The Village Voice blog has a fierce post that links the announcement to the post-BEA "hint of indie optimism," and ends with the irresistible rallying cry "Let's not fuck this up, Brooklyn."

Moby Lives, the blog of Melville House (a fantastic Brooklyn indie publisher with a storefront in DUMBO), correctly identifies the bookstore as our "baby" -- and points out that our location is the corner of Time Out New York's "best block in New York."

Publishers Marketplace breaks the news (though you'll need a login to read the article).

Shelved @ NYC, a librarian blog, juxtaposes our news with the sadder tidings of Morningside Bookshop closing on the Upper West Side. We're thinking of Peter and co. these days, and hope we can be half the community institution that Morningside has been.

The Brooklyn Paper has a brief article with a picture of our smiling mugs in front of the store space (on an unfortunately rainy June day)

Racked has a great little post focused on the community angle.


I think there will probably be more coming (I did an interview with the Brooklyn Eagle this morning) -- I'll add them here as I come across them. We're trying to keep a record of our press coverage (helps with lenders, publishers, and others we need to impress, we've found), so if you see any pieces we've missed, we've love it if you could link them in the comments!


Update: The Brooklyn Eagle ran the story on Monday, with a wonderful "dreams come true" angle, pointing out that the projected opening date is one year after our launch party at BAM.