A Bookseller Busted on the 4th of July

The New York Times profiles an Upper West Side fixture.

NYPDCarWe recently highlighted New York Times writer Corey Kilgannon’s chronicling of the Silver Gull Beach Club in Queens. The article series launched over the July 4 holiday weekend and, coincidentally, that date figures comically in Kilgannon’s newest report.

The piece “A Sidewalk Vendor Amasses Books, Summonses and Lawsuits” documents a staple of the Upper West Side, Kirk Davidson, who has been selling books from an unlicensed perch on Broadway between 72nd and 73rd Streets since 1986.

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