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Re:The Last Bookbinder on the Lower East Side by Animats on Saturday December 24, 2016 @03:53PM (#13251580)
But not even the last bookbinder in Manhattan.[1]

Some on-demand printing services offer hard-cover bookbinding.

[1] http://www.ivrybookbinding.com/

Re:The Last Bookbinder on the Lower East Side by HarryHirsch on Saturday December 24, 2016 @07:10PM (#13252192)
Some on-demand printing services offer hard-cover bookbinding.

That's not bookbinding, it's a cheap not-quite-replacement for the real thing. When difficult-to-replace volumes from your personal library start losing pages you see a bookbinder, not your corner photocopying business. University libraries used to have them on the staff, but they seem to have gone the way of the glassblower in the chemistry department. I understand that one can find still find bookbinding shops in strict-orthodox communities, people like to keep their prayer book, even after the original binding has given up.

Re:The Last Bookbinder on the Lower East Side by tingletech on Saturday December 24, 2016 @10:23PM (#13252715)
UC has a bindery in Oakland that is run by Berkeley but takes jobs systemwide. There is also a "Cal Trade Bindery" by my house on 24th St in Oakland.
Re:The Last Bookbinder on the Lower East Side by jawbone3 on Saturday December 24, 2016 @07:58PM (#13252313)
Yeah, I could find at least three here in Stockholm, so it would be a pretty damning sign of american book culture if NYC couldn't produce more than one...