2. Housing Works Bookstore
If we go back to November 2021–knitting red scarves, Jake Gyllenhall trending on tik tok–we return to the anxious anticipation of the re-release of Taylor’s fourth studio album. Red, originally released in 2012, featured the song “All Too Well,” a “sad girl autumn” anthem. But in that fateful November on 2021, the full version was released. All ten minutes of it. The maroon cherry on top was the short film Swift released to accompany the song. The Grammy award-winning music video was filmed spanning New York state, with the final scene filmed at Housing Works Bookstore. There we see Taylor signing copies of her book, entitled All Too Well. No more time dancing around the kitchen or hearing stories about his tee-ball team, she’s untying their invisible string and moving on.