Whether your passion is high fashion, high-risk snow boarding or high finance, Harbor News has a magazine to fit your taste.
The recently opened newsstand in the growing Inner Harbor East development off Aliceanna Street sells nearly 3,000 different magazines from across the country and around the world.
“The selection is amazing,” said employee Jacqui Parkhill, 24, as customers browsed through racks filled with glossy periodicals.
Harbor News is the brainchild of Maryland native and recent New York City transplant Christina Cieri, 35, a graphic designer who worked in both film and commercial production in New York. Cieri said that opening Harbor News combined good business sense and personal interest.
“I wanted to open a business I would enjoy, and I knew that Baltimore didn?t have a good newsstand,” she said.
The store, opened in May, attracts a wide variety of customers from the city and beyond, Cieri said. Customer favorites included fashion, home design and travel magazines, she said.
And while staples like Vogue, People and Rolling Stone are available in ample supply, more exotic titles provide browsers with much to explore.
For example, Murderland, a thick journal filled with “real crime” fiction, is available for $12 dollars. Three different magazines for snow boarding enthusiasts are displayed prominently on the front rack. For the truly bold there?s a fresh new copy of Sweep!, a magazine for fans of the unusual winter sport curling ? an Olympic sport that?s kind of like shuffleboard on ice. Throw in a few poetry journals, Majesty (a magazine dedicated solely to covering British royalty) and an assortment of unusual books, and Harbor News is more than worth visiting for anyone searching for a hard-to-find or unusual magazine.
Harbor News is open 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 9. a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
