Bluestockings (bookstore)

Bluestockings was a radical bookstore, café, and activist center located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, operating from 1999 to 2025. It started as a volunteer-supported and collectively owned bookstore, and later became a worker-owned bookstore that also operated mutual-aid offerings/a free store. The store started in 1999 as a feminist bookstore and was named for a group of Enlightenment intellectual women, the Bluestockings.