This dying bookstore has a proposal for NYC: Just treat us like you treated Amazon
(World News Science)

In New York City’s Long Island City neighborhood, down the road from where Amazon tried (and failed) to build a “second headquarters,� a bookstore owner is claiming that, despite solid business, he’ll have to close unless the local government steps in to help. advertisement In his open letter to New York’s politicians, Book Culture owner Chris Doeblin says his four stores (there are three in Manhattan, in addition to the one in Long Island City) face annihilation “soon� unless the government intervenes. His argument for assistance is simple: The stores generate $650,000 in annual tax revenue for the city and state, and his 75 staffers (on a...