After months of anticipation, a new Barnes & Noble has officially opened its doors at a shopping center in York County.

The Barnes & Noble flagship store in Union Square is now among three stores in the city that is unionized. Bloomberg via Getty Images. Protests were held last year at the Union Square location ...

A shopper photographs a book inside a Barnes & Noble bookstore in New York, US, on Thursday, Feb. 8, ... America’s largest retail bookseller, has reclaimed the flagship store it vacated in 2013.

His success has gained attention, as, in recent years, Barnes & Noble began to open stores all over the country, even reopening a flagship Washington, D.C., store that had closed in 2012.

Barnes & Noble founder Leonard Riggio, who built a single store into a bookselling giant, died Tuesday at 83 in New York City, the company said on X. He had Alzheimer’s disease.

Riggio’s near-half century reign began in 1971 when he used a $1.2 million loan to purchase Barnes & Noble's name and the flagship store on lower Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. He acquired hundreds ...

Leonard Riggio in 2003. Rose Hartman/Getty. Riggio founded Barnes & Noble in 1971, when he acquired the trade name and the then-flagship store in Manhattan.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Three New York City Barnes & Noble stores have ratified the chain’s first union contract with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), it was recently ...