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40 West 20th Street 13: 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 ...
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]
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.
The Fairfax County Library was established in 1939. [5] As of May 2015, there are 23 library branches, including eight regional branches, 14 community branches, one which assists people with disabilities.
In 1835, the city's Street Committee, after receiving numerous complaints about lack of access for development above 14th Street, decided to open up all lots which had already been plotted on the city grid up to 42nd Street, which thus became – for a time – the northern boundary of the city. [5]
The New York Public Library: The Architecture and Decoration of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. New York, NY: W.W. Norton and Company. ISBN 978-0-393-07810-7. Sherman, Scott (2015). Patience and fortitude : power, real estate, and the fight to save a public library, Brooklyn; London : Melville House, ISBN 978-1-61219-429-5
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) is a circulating library of the New York Public Library (NYPL) system. It is housed in the former Arnold Constable & Company department store building at 455 Fifth Avenue, on the southeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 40th Street, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. [1]
Pershing Square is a public plaza in Manhattan, New York City, located where Park Avenue and 42nd Street intersect in front of Grand Central Terminal. The main roadway of Park Avenue crosses over 42nd Street on the Park Avenue Viaduct , also known as the Pershing Square Viaduct.