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The Music Division, as a founding division of The New York Public Library, is the oldest of all the divisions at LPA. Its origins stem from the private library of banker Joseph William Drexel . Upon his death in 1888, his valuable library of 5,542 volumes and 766 pamphlets, known as the Drexel Collection , became part of the Lenox Library.
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL), formerly known as the Mid-Manhattan Library, is a branch of the New York Public Library (NYPL) at the southeast corner of 40th Street and Fifth Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It is diagonally across from the NYPL's Main Branch and Bryant Park to the northwest. The ...
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 fifth-largest public library in the world. It is a private, non-governmental, independently ...
U2, Morrissey, Etta James, The Velvet Underground…you’d be hard pressed to find an artist who hasn’t penned a song about Sundays, and it’s probably because the day of rest can either be ...
The New York Public Library: a universe of knowledge. New York: New York Public Library in association with Scala Publishers, London. Dierickx, Mary B. (1996). The Architecture of Literacy: The Carnegie Libraries of New York City. New York: Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and the New York City Dept. of General Services.
November 8–13: NYC→Toronto Wiki-Train for WikiConference North America; October 29: Wikidata Day in New York City; October 21–22: Wiki-NYC Pavilion for Open House New York; October 3: History of Medicine in Newark Wikipedia Editathon at Dana Library; October 1: Hispanic-Latinx Heritage Month: Edit-a-thon! September 20: Annual Election ...
New York City public works commissioner Frederick H. Zurmuhlen requested in April 1952 that the Board of Estimate approve $900,000 for the fitting-out of the Central Library's second floor. [208] By then, the Central Library had a total annual circulation of 1.021 million, about one-seventh of the BPL system's total circulation. [ 209 ]
The 53rd Street Library is a branch of the New York Public Library at 18 West 53rd Street, just west of Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The building is located on the south side of 53rd Street, across from the Museum of Modern Art, and adjacent to 660 Fifth Avenue to the east. The library occupies the ground story and two ...