No Rent Reduction for St. Mark’s

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Apparently, Cooper Union is broke, which means St. Mark’s Bookshop owners Bob Constant and Terry McCoy’s request for a rent deduction was denied.

From the Daily News: “…their bid for a $5,000 rent cut was nixed by landlord Cooper Union in a meeting with T.C. Westcott, a vice president for finance and administration at the arts and engineering school…‘They don’t feel they can do anything in terms of the rent,’ McCoy said. ‘She started out by telling us that Cooper is really losing a lot of money.’”

On the bright side, the owners have said that the number of people visiting the store and purchasing books has helped.

via GalleyCat

LaToya Jordan is a native Brooklynite whose poetry has appeared in MiPOesias, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, The November 3rd Club, The Splinter Generation, qarrtsiluni, and other journals. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles and mentors a budding young writer with the organization Girls Write Now. She is inspired by crime dramas and often peruses the web in search of true-life macabre stories for her poetry. Her friends are afraid. She blogs about her writing life at www.latoyalikestowrite.com. More from this author →