Andy Rubin, bookseller and arts and music promoter, died on November 22 at age 59.
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As his family noted, "He lived in Baltimore, New York and on Amtrak. Andy was a television producer for ABC and NBC news, a bookstore/coffee shop owner, and music manager. He was a free spirit who loved life, baseball, books, music, photography, the arts, animals, bourbon, politics, traveling and his family."
He learned about bookselling at Coliseum Books in New York City, where his late father, Sy Rubin, had been a founder. In 2007, he opened the Baltimore Chop bookstore, a general-interest store that emphasized many of his interests: sports books, live music, and art glass. (See our profile here.) That store morphed into Cyclops Books & Music, which eventually closed its doors.
As a friend wrote: "One thing I think everyone would say about Andy was that he was supportive and accepting. He treated the literati and down on their luck poets with the same grace. He helped writers and musicians like it was his mission in life."
The funeral service will be held Friday, November 29, at noon at the Plaza Jewish Community Chapel, 630 Amsterdam Ave., New York City, and burial is at 2 p.m. at Old Montefiore Cemetery in Saint Albans.
Donations can be made in Rubin's memory to the Noble Heart Sanctuary or the New York Choral Society.