&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Bluestockings_(142607424).jpg) 172 Allen Street storefront | |
| Formation | 1999 |
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| Founder | Kathryn Welsh |
| Type | Bookstore worker coop |
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Area served | New York metropolitan area |
| Website | www |
Bluestockings is a radical bookstore, café, and activist center located in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City. It started as a volunteer-supported and collectively owned bookstore; and is currently a worker-owned bookstore with mutual aid offerings/free store. The store started in 1999 as a feminist bookstore and was named for a group of Enlightenment intellectual women, the Bluestockings. Its founding location was 172 Allen Street, and is currently located a few blocks east on 116 Suffolk Street.