The loss of a bookstore is never easy to swallow.
Fortunately the Community Bookstore at Court and Warren streets isn't being pushed out of the neighborhood like so many other small businesses that couldn't survive steep rent hikes.
According to The New York Times, John Scioli's store, known for its seemingly messy piles of books that often spill out onto the sidewalk, will close next year.
Scioli, who had owned the building and lives in it, will have about 10 months to move his books out of the store and two years to vacate his upstairs home — additional time that he welcomes, he told the newspaper.
The three-story building at 212 Court St. was sold for $5.5 million to brothers that own a number of commercial retail properties in the city, the Times reported.
