Shops in Union Square / Gramercy

Four floors of used and new books at Broadway and 12th, open since 1927 and still run by the founding family. The dollar carts sit outside on the Broadway side and the rare book floor is at the top. You can spend ten minutes or two hours and nobody will approach you.

Listings updated September 2026 post 10am to 9pm daily. The store's antiquarian trade listing gives a later 10:30pm close, so the evening edge is not settled

GrowNYC has run this market at the north and west edges of Union Square year round since 1976, with more than 140 growers and producers rotating through. It runs four days a week in all weather. Buy something you can eat standing up and take it into the park.

Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 8am to 6pm, year round