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Battery Park City Library: 175 North End Avenue Designed by 1100 Architect in 2010. [6] 14: Bloomingdale Library: 150 West 100th Street Opened in 1898 as the Bloomingdale Branch of the New York Free Circulating Library; merged with the New York Public Library in 1901; rebuilt one block east in 1961. 15: Chatham Square Library: 33 East Broadway
Additions in the 2000s include McGovern-Stella Link Neighborhood Library (2005), HPL Express Southwest (2008), [19] and HPL Express Discovery Green (2008). [20] A new building for Looscan Neighborhood Library opened in 2007, replacing a 1956 structure. [21] The Jones Building closed for renovations in 2006 and reopened in 2008.
The Howard Beach location first opened in May 1963. It moved to its present location at 92-06 156th Ave in November 1978. [2] 27: Hunters Point: 47-40 Center Boulevard, Long Island City, NY 11109 The Hunters Point Community Library opened on September 24, 2019, more than 15 years after it was proposed.
The McGovern-Stella Link Branch of the Houston Public Library is located at 7405 Stella Link Road. [60] The library, named after physician John P. McGovern , [ 61 ] opened on January 8, 2005. [ 62 ] [ 63 ] The Houston Business Journal awarded the library a Landmark Award for Community Impact in 2006.
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.
A remnant of the Croton distribution reservoir, seen at the foundation of the South Court in 2014. The consolidation of the Astor and Lenox Libraries into the New York Public Library in 1895, [10] [11] along with a large bequest from Samuel J. Tilden and a donation of $5.2 million from Andrew Carnegie, [12] allowed for the creation of an enormous library system. [13]
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 Newburgh Free Library is currently located in a four-story building overlooking the Hudson River at 124 Grand Street in Newburgh, NY.The library's main goals are to “provide substantial print resources and traditional services and to secure the technology to make the library a globally relevant information center."