Millionaire owner of iconic Strand Book
Store in NYC pleads with public for help
as revenue drops
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Ariel Zilber
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
10/25/2020 2:00:09 PM
An iconic New York City bookstore is asking the public to save it from financial ruin brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic even though it is owned by a multimillionaire wife of a US senator who recently bought at least $115,000 in Amazon stock and then got a PPP loan while laying off workers.
Strand Book Store, the 93-year-old institution where customers often get lost in the 18 miles of some 2.5 million new, used, and rare books (Snip) tweeted a dramatic statement pleading for help from the public.
But outraged Twitter users noted that the store’s owner, Nancy Bass Wyden, the wife of Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
MMC 10/25/2020 2:06:10 PM (No. 583898)
I love a good book store..I love privately held bookstores..
I support bookstores- but this lady garners ZERO sympathy from me..
Karma- buying Amazon stock- while owning a famous bookstore needing in store clientele!!
Bookstore failing.. liberalism is a mental disorder.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Avikingman 10/25/2020 2:16:37 PM (No. 583901)
Wyden? You must be kidding.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
SkeezerMcGee 10/25/2020 2:21:15 PM (No. 583904)
I'm beginning to believe Mayor de Blasio is intentionally trying to destroy the economy of NYC. I do not understand why NYC continues to put up with his absurd, unnecessary economy-killing shut downs. The lack of push back is allowing NYC's economic suicide. There's not even the slightest glimmer of light at the end of his tunnel.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LeeBertie 10/25/2020 2:27:28 PM (No. 583907)
CHUTZPAH
n. Unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity
n. Utter nerve; effrontery.
n. Utter audacity, effrontery or impudence; exaggerated self-opinion
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
dbdiva 10/25/2020 2:42:47 PM (No. 583914)
And again..... Laying it all at the feet of Covid. No word about mayor-approved lawlessness in NYC. I'd venture that fear of violence is the root cause of this store's problems. You know - the issue we may not discuss.
It's obscene that she was given a million dollars. I have several friends who are small business owners, who are not independently wealthy, and who have applied for these funds but have heard nothing.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 10/25/2020 3:01:35 PM (No. 583919)
Typical Lefty-they NEVER put their money where their mouth is. Talk may be cheap, but try to get money from a Lefty that isnc4't publicly funded (i.e. someone else's) and they cry like little bitc4es.
7 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 10/25/2020 3:09:57 PM (No. 583925)
After finding out who owns this, I would not give that woman a nickel. She loathes Oregon so much, her senator husband hasn't lived in his own district since they married. At least a decade or maybe more. He really needs to run in NYC and stop abusing Oregon's good nature.
7 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
Ribicon 10/25/2020 3:24:05 PM (No. 583937)
The building they own is worth some $41 million, and Bass recently purchased as much as $250,000 worth of stock in Amazon, her competitor. Bass likely doesn't care one way or the other about the bookstore itself, but keeping it open with contributions from a soft-hearted and gullible public is a crafty way to cover property taxes and maintenance until the building is sold for condominiums.
10 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
sanspeur 10/25/2020 3:45:33 PM (No. 583951)
since she inherited the iconic “8miles of books” Strand it has turned into a tschotskie store .selling bobble heads of woke folk like rbg & mike , tote bags, antifa buttons , badges & every progressive money laundering book ever written . They got rid of their old informed bibliophile staff and non fiction books on every topic imaginable.They were premiere in military & American history , biographies, Art tomes ..Now is hagiographic garbage of prog politicos with only nasty al franken type screeds against any conservative & their contributions.Sad .But i
8 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
marbles 10/25/2020 3:49:54 PM (No. 583956)
This wealthy person who does not need the income the store produces to live ,wants other people to pay for the stores existence. What a creep.
7 people like this.
A real business person would have run promotions saying why shopping at the store is better than shopping elsewhere, promoting the value to the customer. Instead, this woman asks for charity. "Buy here because I'm a deserving person". That's no way to run a business. How about 30% discount on all books bought by Christmas (just note that they will not allow any returns). People would flock in for the discounts and they'd still make a profit. You cannot run a successful business asking for handouts and pity purchases from the public.
9 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 10/25/2020 6:58:04 PM (No. 584072)
NYC is literally dying, strangled by communism, crime and incompetence.
Oh, well. It was never a place I liked, anyway. They did it entirely to themselves, sympathy meter still on zero.
2 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/26/2020 1:55:31 AM (No. 584382)
The last person who knows how to read has already left New York City.
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The DM really outdid itself on this one. There are reams of info on Bass-Wyden, even including husband Ron’s Senate financial disclosure. She is not a sympathetic figure in any way, shape or form… A maliciously fun read.