Labyrinth will no longer supply books for Princeton courses
After 17 years, Princeton’s coursebook partnership with local independent bookstore Labyrinth Books is coming to an end.
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After 17 years, Princeton’s coursebook partnership with local independent bookstore Labyrinth Books is coming to an end.
At a Princeton Town Council meeting on Monday, March 25, the council announced hefty funding allocations pertaining to improvements to infrastructure and public space in Princeton. These announcements come on the heels of the University’s announcement of a $50 million voluntary contribution to the municipality of Princeton.
On Friday nights, Chabad’s Princeton community makes the walk to 128 Nassau Street and descends to the carpeted basement room where they host Shabbat dinners. Chabad has occupied this space for the past two years while renovating their typical residence at 15 Edwards Place. Finally, after two years of renovations and expansion to the property, Chabad will host its first Shabbat dinner in the new residence — an 8,400 square foot space that Rabbi Eitan Webb hopes will be a space of joy and community on campus.
University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 addressed the Princeton Town Council in its meeting on Monday, Feb. 26. During the meeting, the council granted an extension on the Graduate Hotel construction project, which was supposed to end by March, until May 16.
Following a contentious move on Jan. 8 by the Princeton Town Council to consolidate three of its volunteer commissions with little notice, some members of the dissolved committees are questioning the Council’s intentions. In their view, the decision is a reflection of deeper issues of trust within the Council.
On a typical morning, Labyrinth Books opens its doors to patrons at 10 a.m. The morning of Tuesday, Feb. 13, the store’s opening was briefly disrupted by a demonstration inside the store. Around 20 people participated in the protest, including Labyrinth employees, Princeton students, and others who gathered for about ten minutes in the store to present a letter detailing complaints against the store’s management.
When November 2024 election season rolls around, there will be two Princeton Council seats up for grabs. Both positions are currently uncontested.
In a Jan. 8 meeting, the Princeton Town Council announced plans to consolidate the Civil Rights Commission, Human Services Commission, and Affordable Housing Board into a single 11-member committee. Proponents, including all members of the town council, argue that the move will streamline Princeton’s government, although over 30 Princeton residents expressed opposition and frustration with this decision at a Council meeting on Jan. 22. At that meeting, council members amended the ordinance to increase the number of members of the new committee from seven to nine with two alternates. They also voted to change the name of the committee and the process by which committee chairs are chosen.
Tensions ran high at the first Princeton Board of Education meeting of the semester on Tuesday, Jan. 30 as public commenters debated the sex education curriculum at Princeton Middle School. Some commenters accused protesters of intimidating children after weeks of protesting against the program outside of the school.
Employees of Labyrinth Books on Nassau Street, the store’s owners, and the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU) signed a voluntary recognition agreement on the evening of Wednesday, Jan. 10, officially marking the unionization of Labyrinth workers.
On Tuesday, Jan. 9 at 10:34 a.m., the owners of Labyrinth Books announced their intention to voluntarily recognize the unionization of their staff with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), according to a press release from Dorothea von Moltke on behalf of herself and the two other owners, Cliff Simms and Peter Simms. Once the agreement is officially signed, the bargaining process will begin. Labyrinth Books will become the second bookstore in New Jersey to unionize, after the Barnes & Noble College Bookstore at Rutgers, which unionized on May 12, 2023.
At 10 a.m. on Dec. 21, employees at Labyrinth Books, located at 122 Nassau Street, opened its doors to the public as usual. But, as customers flowed in to browse, employees gathered together on the floor and announced their intent to unionize.
The debate over whether electric scooters should be allowed, familiar on campus, is continuing beyond FitzRandolph Gate.
Responding to recent town contention around traffic and parking, Princeton’s town council passed an ordinance eliminating free, temporary parking on a section of Witherspoon Street at a Dec. 11 meeting. Council members and community members also discussed the Franklin Maple project, a proposed affordable housing development that would bring the town closer to compliance with its 2020 mandate to build 753 affordable housing units by 2025.
On Monday, at least 10 emergency vehicles arrived on Nassau Street, shutting down the street between Olden Street and the intersection of Vandeventer Avenue, Nassau Street, and Washington Road.
A political group terming itself the Princeton Coalition of Responsible Development has drafted a petition with nearly 1,000 signatures opposing the Municipality of Princeton’s Master Plan. Princeton’s Planning Board prepared the plan, which guides the municipality’s growth and development and informs its zoning, land use decisions, and infrastructure.
Princeton has historically been a walking campus — students can make the longest trek on campus, from Forbes College to the E-Quad, in about 25 minutes.
When Princeton students returned to campus this fall, the Nassau Street locations of Mochinut and Ani Ramen, two casual chain restaurants located near the Princeton Garden Theater, had closed after being open for less than a year. Other locations of each chain remain open.
It was a major night for elected officials up and down the Garden State. Local Princeton elections were dominated by a long-running controversy about the recent resignation of Princeton Public School Superintendent Dr. Carol Kelley, and an opponent of the superintendent won a seat on the board. Democrats dominated in deep blue Mercer County and notched important wins in tightly contested state legislative elections amid major wins for Democrats nationwide.
The Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood, located north of campus along Witherspoon and John Streets, is an area with rich historical and cultural significance as Princeton’s historically Black neighborhood. Yet over the last few decades, the Black population in Witherspoon-Jackson has declined.