TOMORROW, Sat. Jan 6, is the last day of COLISEUM BOOKS in NYC

Moving the bookstore out of the lobby of the school many years ago was an obvious mistake and probably sealed its eventual fate. As was letting Beth Puffer go.

You seem to know a lot about this

I grew up in the neighborhood. The decision to move the store out of the school lobby and into a huge retail space on the corner wasn't to expand the store, it was to free the space in the lobby for a principal's office they could have put anywhere. They went from paying zero rent to paying... I can't remember the figure but it was jaw-dropping.

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/mome/industries/nyc-bookstores.page