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The Queens Public Library, also known as the Queens Library and Queens Borough Public Library, is one of three separate and independent public library systems in New York City. The other two are the New York Public Library (serving the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island), and the Brooklyn Library (serving Brooklyn). [1]
53rd Street Library [3] 18 West 53rd Street The 53rd Street branch opened on June 27, 2016. [3] 6: 115th Street Library: 203 West 115th Street Designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened in 1907 7: 125th Street Library: 224 East 125th Street Designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened in 1904. 8: 58th Street Library: 127 East 58th Street
The present shuttle station at Times Square–42nd Street was constructed as part of the route segment underneath 42nd Street and Times Square, which extended from Park Avenue and 41st Street to Broadway and 47th Street. Construction on this section of the line began on February 25, 1901. Work for that section had been awarded to Degnon-McLean ...
The Queens Public Library (QPL), also known as the Queens Borough Public Library and Queens Library (QL), is the public library for the borough of Queens, and one of three public library systems serving New York City. It is one of the largest library systems in the world by circulation, having loaned 13.5 million items in the 2015 fiscal year ...
42nd Street–Bryant Park: IND Sixth Avenue Line: December 15, 1940 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal: IND Eighth Avenue Line: September 10, 1932 Times Square† [a] IRT: 42nd Street Line: October 27, 1904 Times Square: Times Square–42nd Street: BMT Broadway Line: January 5, 1918 Times Square–42nd Street: IRT Broadway–Seventh ...
The 57th Street station opened in 1968, [129] [130] upon which trains to 57th Street began serving the 42nd Street station. [131] The portion of the Chrystie Street Connection connecting the Sixth Avenue Line with the Williamsburg Bridge opened on July 1, 1968, and was used by the KK train [ 132 ] until that route was discontinued in 1976.
42nd Street and Lexington Avenue Worth Street (SB), Chambers Street (NB), 42nd Street, FDR Drive Began service on October 1, 1976 running from Grand Central to Battery Place and Greenwich Street. [247] [248] The service included a UniTicket program between the Conrail (now Metro-North) rail service at Grand Central and the express bus route. [249]
The New York Public Library's Main Branch measures 390 feet (120 m) on its north–south axis by 270 feet (82 m) on its west–east axis. [45] [63] [145] The library is located on the east side of the block bounded by Fifth Avenue on the east, 40th Street on the south, Sixth Avenue on the west, and 42nd Street on the north. [197]