powerHouse has moved its Park Slope, Brooklyn, store to Columbus Circle on Manhattan's Upper West Side, I Love the Upper West Side reported. It opened May 22 and occupies the same space in the Shops at Columbus Circle that once housed an Amazon Books.
"We're moving kit and caboodle over to the Upper West Side, which is in desperate need of a curated book, stationery, and gift store," wrote founder Daniel Power in an announcement. After its 2012 opening, Power noted, the Park Slope store, at 1111 8th Ave., was doing well for several years, "but the loss of Ladybird [a bakery] across the street has had an impact, and as wonderful as our hardcore supporters have been, we have needed more of our Haunted Bookstore fans to have stopped in a bit more frequently."
Power added that he and his team are considering what to do with the storefront on 8th Ave. and are soliciting feedback from the community about what they'd like to see open in that space. The other powerHouse locations in Dumbo and Industry City are continuing to operate as normal.
The Columbus Circle Amazon Books opened in 2017. In 2022, Amazon announced that it was closing all of its bricks-and-mortar bookstores.