Radical bookstore offering Narcan and a toilet faces eviction

Bluestockings, on New York's Lower East Side, is at the center of a battle over outreach to local residents dependent on drugs

The New York Post's headline writers didn't hold back: Woke NYC bookstore that lured strung-out junkies with freebies faces possible eviction". The tabloid reported that the landlord of the Bluestockings Cooperative bookstore on New York's Lower East Side was threatening eviction unless the store stopped operating as a medical facility".

Bluestockings is a historic trans- and queer-owned bookstore and has been providing, alongside revolutionary and feminist literature, a place for local residents to use a bathroom and pick up hygiene products, snacks, items of clothing and harm -reduction supplies, including the anti-opioid overdose agent Narcan and fentanyl test-strips.