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'Uptown' on Carmine St., Catering As Always to Civil-Service Aspirants

By RICHARD KHAVKINE
Posted 2/7/20

Inside the Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Books store on Carmine St., just past the Shakespeare, Dylan and Twain tomes, a few feet from a fortune teller, Amy Bergenfeld oversees a collection of handbooks, exam guides and assorted prep paperbacks.

The few dozen mostly green-and-yellow spiral books arrayed on a few shelves toward the back of the Carmine St. location comprise the latest incarnation of the Civil Service Bookshop.

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