Photo Credit: Yana Paskova | The New York Times
“This did not look like this two hours ago,” Veronica Liu said as she surveyed the crowd at Word Up, Washington Heights’ newest, possibly even first, pop-up bookstore. It was 8 p.m. on Friday. At 6 p.m. — Word Up’s stated opening time — Heights residents and newly recruited volunteers were still moving boxes into the former pharmacy storefront on Broadway and 176th Street, where the community bookstore is in residency until mid-July.
Word Up is the result of a collaboration between the landlord, Vantage Residential, the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, and Ms. Liu, the managing editor for the publisher Seven Stories Press, who came up with the idea after a reading last month in Harlem.
Situated between a cellphone carrier and a vacant storefront opposite the United Palace Theater, Word Up at first seems like a nondescript addition to a strip-mallish segment of Broadway; that is, until passers-by look under the Curewell Drugs awning.
Read more: A Bookshop Opens for a One-Month Stand in Washington Hts. | The New York Times
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