Brooklyn’s Most Cluttered Bookstore 

it's not that he's a hoarder but he needs a bigger bookstore to have room for all the books. If he was a hoarder then all the people who own bookstores are hoarders.

there's something beautiful about this

I would have so much fun organizing that store.

I see art and passion. I hope he opened another bookstore.

You don’t go there to find a book, the books finds you.

This makes me sad. I grew up in Cobble Hill and would pass this bookstore all the time. I remember buying a book here for a school report. Sure the place was messy, but it had its charm and felt like part of the neighborhood. Like a landmark almost. Of course the neighborhood has changed so much since I hardly recognize it anymore. I wish him the best of luck.

if there was an indie movie about this guy and his bookstore, i would watch the heck out of it.

The fascinating thing is it looks like chaos to us but the owner knows where everything is. Amazing.

Imagine growing up in a family where education was so valued that your basement was like this. Too amazing.

My godfather had a record store that looked like this...the store was called Platterworld in Garfield NJ. It no longer exists...he passed away. I love this type of store.

Scioli didn't sell the bookstore. He sold the BUILDING ... for $5.5M.

The community should gather to help and declutter these books. They were treasures 🥺🥺

OMG, Community Bookstore was what I Ioved best about living in adjacent Carroll Gardens decades ago! Few weekends went by when I did not spend a couple hours in the quiet shop -- at that time, admittedly not as densely packed as shown in this video. My favorite finds were unusual cookbooks and hardcover editions of novels I had loved first in paperback, some of which sit on my bookshelves today. I did throw up a little in my mouth when a Google search revealed the storefront is a real estate office now. However, the words of the dark-haired woman with the short haircut ring very true: we can't expect these special kinds of shops to be around forever and we should strive to create them anew. Wishing all the best to Mr. Scioli!

my home ın the future

Two appalling things about this: the closure of the store and that reporter's clothes.

He loves it and he hates it...I can relate to that😃 Those books are beautiful but they sure are a burden, he needs a break💚 Bless his heart, I'm sure he's such an important human being.

Well thanks for making me horribly sad tonight youtube

YOU ARE A BRILLIANT, BEAUTIFUL BEING! THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO! WOW!

Kudos to John who saves these treasures, and to the donators who have enough love/respect for the written gendre to bring them to him instead of a trashpile. Book reading is a dying art, and may be eliminated altogether in the face of new technologies. And yes, I have shelves of beloved books I will never trash.

Very romantic, the idea of such a place as this. A place so small where you could get lost in more ways then one. It's a place of refuge and a den of chaos. A mystical sense of self buzzes within one whose unimaginable appetites for solitude will indeed go unsatiated. Some unknown voice speaks to any of us, begging at the precipice of wonder that we would relinquish our grasp of clenched fists whom cling to life so dearly. To take the plunge into this unfamiliar unfathomable chasm... It is awe inspiring. Can you imagine?

This reminds me of a very similar, massive used book store in Long Beach, CA called Acres of Books. The Long Beach store was much more organized though. It featured extremely tall shelves stacked on top of each other, and each stacked shelf was packed tight with what was reported to be over a million books. It was kind of scary going in there. Ray Bradbury spent many, many hours at the store, and he even name-checked Acres of Books in his essay, “I Sing the Bookstore Eclectic.”

Oh look, my bedroom's on the Internet

I need to tidy that shit up..

Its beautiful. I think i would've been drooling over the place. Its freakin gorgeous. Well its gorgeous to a booklovers eyes. 💖

Love this. Yes, books everywhere... something so inviting about this too. I would be so excited when finding a new treasure.. a Sunday afternoon treat!

Part of me wants to get rich and buy him all the space and or bookcases thar he needs

the makes me so happy and i can't explain why... it's chaotic but beautiful? and the owner is defo someone i would want to have a chat with !!

I have a bookstore in my city close to me, that is very similar to this. I love going there because you can find absolute treasures of books there you din’t know you needed. The owner used to also know where everything was! Now a group of volunteers own it since it’s an absolute gem. Collette & co - The Hague, The Netherlands

Books in huge lots are among my favorite things!!!! Thank God for books!! :-)

Omg my heart 💔💔💔 i want to work there for free just to be with that much of books. Can anyone tell me where all the books went after closing 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

This is so sad that bookstore had a soul.

He seems like gentle caring soul❤ bless him ! Hope he’s doing well now

I rewatch this every month or so lol love it!

That place is like heaven for me

Every bookworm who goes der ..will definitely cry..

The amount of vocal fry in this video is outstanding!

If the owner gives me the chance to organise this, i would not hesitate to do so without any delay. This man is incredible intellectual person and these books are a treasure, huge treasure. I wish i could know him and be connected.

I like it being like that though. You can go in there and just wait for a book to call out to you. Like looking for buried treasure.

this shop is a sound engineers dream. it's a perfect isolation booth

that is how a general bookstore should be

These are my favorite type of bookstores...

visit the Dogtown Bookstore in Gloucester Massachusetts. very similar set up. also, what did he do with all the books when he closed his store?

I love how you interviewed the same people that cause places like this to close up bc of high rent

There's a bookstore like this about a minute away from where I live( also in NY) and I've only been in there a few times but it's so weird and cool.

When I become a millionaire, I'm going to get him a building space twice as large. Incredible mind!

I feel so bad, I want to work for him for free and help him!

I would go to this bookstore once a day. I will sleep tonight fantasizing about organizing it. Heavenly!

I find this bookstore so beautiful !

What happens to all the books?

A gold mine.

RU-vid just now suggests this to me. I'm sitting here thinking I missed an opportunity to go there! I would have loved to go in that store. I would've wanted to buy so many books. He needed a bigger space for sure. I hope he's doing okay. I can imagine the loving it and hating it. It's was a big responsibility on his own. ... I feel there is more to the story. Who ever suggested indie movie I agree - or documentary. Everyone has a story.

i LOVE this place it's beautiful

I would still be dying to visit this even just once in my lifetime 🥺😭

What an amazing place. It would be good to go there just to stand in there. It's lovely. You are incredible.

Do u know whats crazy, no matter how messy it looks, the book seller always knows where to find the book

Being smothered in an avalanche of books seems like a pretty decent way to go 🤷‍♀

Is it okay to cry after this video?

Man the music makes me tear up even more

When the opening credits said "Booklyn" I wonder if that was on purpose. I hope he got a LOT for that building

much like the sitcom "Black Books".

Reminds me of _Voltaire & Rousseau_ in Glasgow, UK.

I wish we had a bookstore like that near me. It is so hard to find used bookstores now. Online you don't get the experience like you do at a physical store. I would spend lots of time at a store like that!

This man is really great.

it's amazing and sad omg i'm gonna cry now 😭

I would love to run a used book store- a small Hobbit hole like shop full of treasures.

Wow! So sad. Thanks.

the only cavern i'd be glad to get lost in.

Wow, this is amazing. I would love to have a bookstore but they are not working easily nowadays.

I love to read and feel the book. Much love to books 📚 ❤

You can see his frustration

We have a shop in St Leonard’s Australia that is exactly the same. It’s amazing

Cool bookstore and so much read. 📚📚📚📚

Oh man, I would love to be able to organize that lot !

As long as they are not getting damaged for being in such a tight space I dont see any problems, but he definetly needs a bigger shelf

It’s touched my heart wonderfully I wish i was there

love how he smokes in there, with all that paper...

This made my heart warm idk why

Modern Art!

I love this kind of mess, it's all books

god! Look at it, all those stories trying to escape

about 20 years ago I lived in Penrith in Sydney Australia, There was a bookstore at the end of an arcade on the main street like this. Loved going there. The books found you, not you finding the books.

This makes my scalp itch.

The piled and falling books remind of an episode of Hoarders. You are just waiting for someone to get hurt.

incredible

Why am I crying....

'It reminds me of my grandmother's basement.' Hhahaha If only my grandma had such a basement. I'd stay there all the time

He looks like the guy who you'd walk up to and ask for a HP Lovecraft meets Sherlock Holmes, and he'd return in less than 5 minutes with 3 books that are exactly what you're looking for!

awe, this is extremely sweet. he seems like a pleasant old man who enjoys reading. i feel as though he’s trying to read as much as possible before times up. tbh i would do the same

Oh my gosh this is so cool

I walked by this shop often. I never went inside. Wish I had.

*the shot at **0:44* all I could see was the book Closet Control; great shot.

People are so rude to him omg he just need a bigger bookstore

I would love to organize these books

Dude I love this guy

The disjointed guitar strings playing in the background gave a surreal sense of browsing that store

"I'll have that one at the bottom of the stack please"

I'm gonna arrange everything. Little by little, just give me a dozen of books and that's enough🥰

I don't know, I feel like there's a line between a shop having character because it's a bit cluttered and a shop just being entirely impractical like this one.

This is my favorite You Tube. I watch it every day that I sad, it makes me happy, makes me wish, makes me smile. I will take it to my grave.

Please give us an update!! I want to see what happened to the store.