Barnes & Noble's former flagship location at 105 Fifth Avenue at 18th Street in Manhattan has been shuttered, Gothamist reported. Company spokesperson Mary Ellen Keating said the store closed at the end of the day Monday: "The store sold primarily textbooks, and had a large selection of trade. Trade business has largely been transferred to our nearby Union Square store, now by far our largest volume store in the country."
The closure marks the end of an era: the bookstore was the "original" Barnes & Noble, which chairman Len Riggio bought in 1971.
