MISfortunes
Neighborhoods parched for books
Neighborhoods parched for books
On the last day of 2016, the Barnes & Noble bookstore in the Bronx closed its doors for good, leaving New York City's poorest borough without a general-interest bookstore. The borough's 1.5 million residents - including 200,000 children in public schools - are left without a place to purchase books.
nydailynews.com
If large bookstores no longer make sense, perhaps smaller initiatives can help alleviate book deserts. During the last two summers, the JetBlue Foundation funded book vending machines in grocery stores and community centers in low-income neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., and Detroit.



