The Profile: The band of thieves turning crime into art & the Bernie Madoff of rare books

Good morning, friends.

I was on my way to the subway last week when I passed a tiny bookstore on Bleecker Street in New York. And I have a rule that when you see a tiny bookstore, you stop.

Inside, I was surprised to find a book on Bulgarian folk music and equally as surprised to open one called Naked New York. (It was quite literally a book of completely…