WEST VILLAGE — Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks has a new home — and the West Village has one fewer bookstore.
In an email to her customers, Bonnie Slotnick confirmed Wednesday night that she will be moving her vast collection of used cookbooks into a space in a brownstone on East Second Street.
"I hope to reopen at the new address — 28 East Second Street — in early February," Slotnick wrote. "The shop will still be a work in progress at that point, but I know that you, like me, will be ecstatic to see all the books back on shelves."
As DNAinfo New York reported in November, siblings Garth and Margo Johnston were in search of a retail tenant for the basement-level space in their family's brownstone when they read about Slotnick's landlord troubles.
The siblings reached out to Slotnick and offered to rent her the space, which is triple the size of the West 10th Street location where she sold books for 15 years and has a little garden out back.
At the time, a stunned Slotnick declared herself "speechless."
The Johnston siblings were equally happy with their prospective tenant. The brownstone is the home they grew up in, and was filled with cookbooks by their late mother, Eden Ross Lipson, who spent more than three decades reviewing books for the New York Times Book Review.
"They love books and bookstores, and they thought mine would be the perfect fit for their house," Bonnie wrote to her supporters.
After her contentious relationship with her previous landlord, Slotnick said it's not just the space that has her so smitten with the new location.
"Nothing can match the feeling of knowing that I am welcome and wanted," she wrote. "What Margo and Garth have done is extraordinary in this day and age, and especially in this city."
Margo and Garth Johnston could not immediately be reached for comment.
