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City Island Library: 320 City Island Avenue 52: Clason's Point Library: 1215 Morrison Avenue Designed by John J. O'Malley. 53: Eastchester Library: 1385 East Gun Hill Road 54: Edenwald Library: 1255 East 233rd Street 55: Francis Martin Library: 2150 University Avenue Named after Francis W. Martin, the first district attorney of the Bronx. 56
New York City was originally confined to Manhattan Island and the smaller surrounding islands that formed New York County. As the city grew northward, it began annexing areas on the mainland, absorbing territory from Westchester County into New York County in 1874 and 1895 . During the 1898 consolidation, this territory was organized as the ...
The Lefrak City branch was first opened in December 1966, and moved to its present location at 98-30 57th Avenue, Corona in 1997. [2] 34: Long Island City [9] 37-44 21st Street, Long Island City, NY 11101 The Long Island City branch has been open from July 2007 – present. The branch was formerly the Queensbridge and Ravenswood branches. [2 ...
New York City is split up into five boroughs: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island.Each borough has the same boundaries as a county of the state. The county governments were dissolved when the city consolidated in 1898, along with all city, town, and village governments within each county.
New York, often called New York City [b] or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs , each coextensive with a respective county .
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 ...
Carnegie Grants for Library Buildings, 1890-1917. New York: Carnegie Corporation of New York. OCLC 2603611. 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. ISBN 1-56256-717-9.
Governors Island is a place that has been referred to as a sixth borough of New York City. [13] In 2011, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg referred to the city's waterfront and waterways as a composite sixth borough during presentations of planned rehabilitation projects along the city's shoreline, [14] including Governors Island in the Upper ...