# Bluestockings Cooperative [Bluestockings Cooperative](https://bluestockings.com/) [About Us About Us | Bluestockings Cooperative](https://bluestockings.com/about-us/about-us) [Bluestockings (bookstore) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluestockings_(bookstore)) ****Bluestockings** is a radical bookstore, café, and activist center located on the [Lower East Side](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_East_Side "Lower East Side") of [Manhattan, New York City](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan "Manhattan"). It started as a volunteer-supported and collectively owned bookstore; and is currently a worker-owned bookstore with mutual aid offerings/free store. The store started in 1999 as a [feminist bookstore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_bookstore "Feminist bookstore") and was named for a group of Enlightenment intellectual women, the [Bluestockings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluestocking "Bluestocking"). Its founding location was 172 Allen Street, and is currently located a few blocks east on 116 Suffolk Street.**