[1] In August 2008, the New York store in Nolita split from the parent chain and was renamed McNally Jackson Books.

[1][5] By October 2011, the store had invested in an Espresso Book Machine to print both major publisher titles and approximately 700 self-published works per month.

In January 2018, McNally Jackson opened a second bookstore in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in the Lewis Steel Building at 76 N 4 St.

[7] They opened their fourth bookstore in Downtown Brooklyn in March 2022,[8] followed by their fifth in Rockefeller Center in the former Time & Life Building in 2023.

[10] [11] On August 26, 2021, the launch was announced of McNally Editions, a paperback reprint series "devoted to hidden gems", with the first titles including books by David Foster Wallace, Han Suyin, Penelope Mortimer, Kay Dick, Margaret Kennedy, and Roy Heath.