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The Main Branch was built after the New York Public Library was formed as a combination of two libraries in the late 1890s. The site, along Fifth Avenue between 40th and 42nd Streets, is located directly east of Bryant Park, on the site of the Croton Reservoir. The architectural firm Carrère and Hastings constructed the structure in the Beaux ...
The New York Public Library ( NYPL) is a public library system in New York City. With nearly 53 million items and 92 locations, the New York Public Library is the second-largest public library in the United States behind the Library of Congress and the fourth-largest public library in the world. [ 5] It is a private, non-governmental ...
Designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened in 1904. 8. 58th Street Library. [6] 127 East 58th Street. Originally designed by Carrère & Hastings and opened May 10, 1907. The original building was demolished and replaced by a new branch in two floors of an office tower at 127 East 58th Street, which opened in 1969. 9.
Contents. Bronx Library Center. The Bronx Library Center is a branch of the New York Public Library in the Fordham section of the Bronx in New York City. The library is located at 310 East Kingsbridge Road between Fordham Road and East 192nd Street, two blocks east of the Grand Concourse. It is the central library for the Bronx, and the largest ...
Huntington Free Library and Reading Room. / 40.839861°N 73.84361°W / 40.839861; -73.84361. The Huntington Free Library is a privately endowed library near Westchester Square in the New York City borough of the Bronx, which is open to the public. It has a non-circulating book collection. The Reading Room has mostly early-20th century ...
The New York Society Library ( NYSL) is the oldest cultural institution in New York City. [ 3] It was founded in 1754 by the New York Society as a subscription library. [ 4] During the time when New York was the capital of the United States, it was the de facto Library of Congress. Until the establishment of the New York Public Library in 1895 ...
197 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. Ex Libris: The New York Public Library is a 2017 American documentary film about the New York Public Library (NYPL), directed by Frederick Wiseman. It was screened in the main competition section of the 74th Venice International Film Festival [ 1] where it won the FIPRESCI Award.
The Elmer Holmes Bobst Library ( / boʊbst / BOHBST ), often referred to simply as Bobst Library or just Bobst, is the main library at New York University (NYU) in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The library is located at 70 Washington Square South between LaGuardia Place and the Schwartz pedestrian plaza, across from the southeast corner of ...