New York’s first sci-fi bookstore opens its doors, wants to save forgotten novels from cosmic oblivion
Thursday night I rode my bike from Manhattan to DUMBO, a small Brooklyn neighborhood next to the water, nestled under the Manhattan Bridge. I was on assignment: I was to attend the grand opening of Singularity & Co ., a Kickstarter-funded sci-fi bookstore . DUMBO (which stands for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass), isn’t “on the way” to anything, despite being located close to downtown Brooklyn, and so it seems an unlikely place to put a bookstore. On top of that, Singularity & Co. isn’t even located on one of DUMBO’s main drags, or even a through street: its street corner is literally fenced in by an adjacent power station
