Many booksellers were forced to close entirely or relocate by the 1960s, with some moving to Broadway. The Strand owners Nancy Bass Wyden and Fred Bass attend the launch of the Aperture Foundation and Pratt Institute’s “Eye On The Strand” at the Strand Book Store on November 19, 2008 in New York City. I’m a lucky man. It was only a matter of years before the business of books would pique his interest and he would start working in the family business. He attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx before continuing his studies at Brooklyn College, where he earned his degree in English in 1949. He passed away in his home in Manhattan on Wednesday. We’re essentially second hand.”. Here's what you should know about his life, net worth, and legacy. His mother was an immigrant from Poland. Fred Bass’s father, Benjamin, was a Lithuanian immigrant. Special Access Tour of the Woolworth Building, Tour an Abandoned Shooting Range and Hidden Veterans Museum, Untapped New York Internships and Job Opportunities, 400 Years of History in 1 Mile Walking Tour, Access The Edge Observation Deck and Walkthrough of Hudson Yards, Behind the Scenes Tour of Landmark Loew’s Jersey Theater, Behind the Scenes Tour of the New Yorker Hotel, Behind the Scenes Tour of the SIMS Municipal Recycling Facility, Behind-the-Scenes Hard Hat Tour of the Abandoned Ellis Island Hospital, Behind-the-Scenes Tour of the Queensway, the Abandoned Rail Line in Forest Park, Board the Arabella, a Mega-Yacht in NYC Harbor, Book Party for The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica with Author Laurie Gwen Shapiro, Brooklyn Kings Theatre Behind the Scenes Tour, Historic East Village Food Tour with James & Karla Murray, Insider Tour of the American Irish Historical Society, Public Art Walking Tour in Lower Manhattan. Leigh Altshuler, Strand’s director of communications, tells The New York Times that Bass’s cause of death was congestive heart failure. The Strand in 1938 (Courtesy Strand Bookstore) The Strand became popular with the Greenwich Village literary crowd rather quickly, thanks in no … But there was one exception: the Strand Bookstore, which moved from Fourth Avenue between 10th and 11th Streets, to its current location on the corner of 12th street and Broadway in 1957 and survived. The Strand Bookstore is an independent bookstore located at 828 Broadway, at the corner of East 12th Street in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, two blocks south of Union Square. In his interview with NPR, Bass says that his own father, the founder of Strand, wasn’t too keen on his son working in the book business. Fred was born just one year later. According to a 2015 article in Oregon Live, Nancy earned at least $2.5 million in 2014, and her net worth at the time was “at least $8.5 million.”, #MONSTASQUADD Fred Bass, Who Made Strand Bookstore a Mecca, Dies at 89 https://t.co/dqjy8lXfhe pic.twitter.com/ByTcHcqOvo, — Suave Churchill (@SuaveManage) January 3, 2018. Stacked high with books old and new and surrounded by iconic dollar carts, the Strand Bookstore at 828 Broadway is the go-to indie bookstore for many New Yorkers, thriving since 1927. Unfortunately, the passion and integrity of Book Row’s entrepreneurs could not withstand rising rents in the 1950s. New media, the rise of large retail bookstores like Barnes & Noble, and the 1954 closing of the nearby Wanamaker’s Department Store also contributed to a decline in consumers. Bass started working at Strand Bookstore when he was just 13. To enable Verizon Media and our partners to process your personal data select 'I agree', or select 'Manage settings' for more information and to manage your choices. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Your Privacy Controls. HuffPost is part of Verizon Media. The company's slogan is "18 Miles Of Books," as featured on its stickers, T-shirts, and other merchandise. Video related to fred bass, strand bookstore owner: 5 fast facts you need to know, Bass scheduled his college classes from 8pm to noon. More often than not, we ended up at the Strand bookstore. The store, which celebrated its 90th anniversary in June, has remained a local staple through the rampages of Barnes & Noble, Amazon and encroaching outposts of faceless banks, fast fashion shops and frozen yogurt parlors. In addition to the main location, there is another store on the Upper West Side on Columbus Ave between West 81st and 82nd Streets, as well as kiosks in Central Park and Times Square. Bass spent much of his childhood living in Manhattan’s East Village. Bass’s father, Benjamin, co-founded Strand in 1927. © 2020 Untapped Cities All Rights Reserved. Untapped New York unearths New York City’s secrets and hidden gems. — Shani Bruno (@shanibruno) January 3, 2018. He had a job working on 4th Avenue, and at that time, there were many bookstores. https://t.co/GZ3G6Lg3YB pic.twitter.com/w0U3AS1t9A, — Strand Book Store (@strandbookstore) January 3, 2018.

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