The Community Bookstore in Cobble Hill (not to be confused with Community Bookstore in Park Slope) is set to close in 2016 after owner John Scioli agreed to sell the three-story building that houses the bookstore on the ground floor for $5.5 million to a real estate group that owns several buildings in midtown. Scioli has 10 months to clear out the bookstore, where between 60,000 and 100,000 titles are stocked from floor to ceiling, and two years to move out of his apartment upstairs. “I’ll be the first to admit I’m a bit of a hoarder,” Scioli, who has operated the bookstore […]
