New Busboys and Poets Bookstore Comes to Hyattsville Arts District
Bookstore manager Rodrigo Rioja has been busy ordering books and stacking them on the bookshelves with hopes that the store can officially open this weekend.
While waiters at the Busboys and Poets in Hyattsville’s Arts District are busy serving food to customers in the bustling restaurant, Rodrigo Rioja quietly prepares a space, meticulously filling rows of shelves with hundreds of books as he prepares to open the restaurant’s bookstore. Bookstore manager Rioja hopes to have all the bookshelves filled by the end of the week so the store can be fully operational by this weekend. But some customers—eager to get their hands on the latest books—have already bought books. Rioja has already sold nearly a hundred books in the past two weeks, while he sets up the shop. “Basically, we don’t want to say no to a customer,” he said. “So if you want to get it now, you can get it now.” Before the restaurant …
SunnyDaysInMD
9:59 am on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
While I'm very glad to see books for sale at Busboys, I can't help but sit back and wonder why the City residents didn't support the real bookstore, which was across the street in new condos. Unfortunately I can't remember the name of shop. This lovely woman, husband and their infant child moved here trusting the Arts District of Hyattsville and the residents to support her shop. But they didn't… more ›