Chelsea, Manhattan -- On West 17th Street, a small shop sits stalled in time. Gramercy Typewriter Co. is the last typewriter store in Manhattan that still actively sells, reconditions, and repairs ...

For most of us, the clickety clack of a manual typewriter – or the gentler tapping of the IBM Selectric – are but memories, if we’ve heard them at all. But at the few remaining typewriter repair shops ...

Many years ago — a sakh yorn tzurik, as we say in Yiddish — when I had little money and was still an unpublished writer, I moved to a street in Manhattan with many used bookstores. It was a safe ...