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Dain, Phyllis. 2000. 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.
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]
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 ...
The library opened in its current location in 1962 and was renovated and expanded from 1990 to 1993, along with the adjacent Business & Career Library. [8] In 2017, BPL sold the Brooklyn Heights branch to a developer, who tore the structure down and replaced it with condominiums and a smaller library, which opened in June 2022. [9] [10] [11]
The Kew Garden Hills branch was formerly the Vleigh branch. It has been open since 1998 at 72-33 Vleigh Place. [2] 30: Langston Hughes: 100-01 Northern Boulevard, Corona, NY 11368 The Langston Hughes branch first opened in 1969, and was open at that location until 1999. It moved to its current location at 100-01 Northern Boulevard in 1999. [2 ...
The library was temporarily closed from March 2020 to May 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. [267] [268] The first phase of the renovation, costing $38 million, was completed in May 2021 and involved adding a book gallery, expanding various rooms, updating the bathrooms and elevators, and redecorating the interior.
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a research library of the New York Public Library (NYPL) and an archive repository for information on people of African descent worldwide. Located at 515 Malcolm X Boulevard ( Lenox Avenue ) between West 135th and 136th Streets in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City , it has ...
Looking west across West 20th St at Heiskell Library for the Blind on a cloudy morning. The Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library, also known as the Heiskell Library and formerly as the Andrew Heiskell Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped and the New York Free Circulating Library for the Blind is a branch of New York Public Library (NYPL) on West 20th Street in the ...