Left Bank Books Versus a West Village Soros Mansion
By: Adriane Quinlan | Published: 2025-07-30 13:40:00 | Source: www.curbed.com
For two years, a teensy bookstore sat under scaffolding, which the owners say deterred shoppers and cut off their light.
Photo: Erik DuRon
Jess Kuronen first noticed the low, piercing sound toward the end of 2021. It was loud enough to drown out the fuzzy punk she often played at Left Bank Books, the Perry Street shop she runs with her business partner, Erik DuRon. Customers would hear it and startle, putting down a chapbook by Audre Lorde or a Kathy Acker first edition to ask, “What is that?” Madeleine Alpert, who works part time at the store, described the sound as similar to dental drilling but more persistent:…
