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Sweet Pickle Books

Opens Wednesday at 10:00 AM

Chinatown,聽New York

"this lovely weird bookstore" (Google reviewer)
Book donations accepted Tuesdays and Wednesdays
Check socials for which genres they're taking monthly

Trade five used books for a jar of house-made pickles at this woman-owned Lower East Side oddity, a love letter to the neighborhood's old pickle-cart days. Shelves bulge with secondhand fiction, art books, records, and pickle-themed merch.

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  • Book-pickle trade
  • Quirky & whimsical
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  • Chinatown
  • New York

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