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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 New York Public Library: Its Architecture and Decoration (1986) Reed, Henry Hope (2011). 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).
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]
1000 St. Nicholas Avenue 44: Webster Library: 1465 York Avenue Originally part of the Webster Free Library, founded by the East Side House settlement in 1894; absorbed by the NYPL in 1904, and it was set for a new library to be built with funds from Andrew Carnegie's gift to the city. [15] 45: Yorkville Library: 222 East 79th Street
The Lenox Library was a library incorporated and endowed in 1870. It was both an architectural and intellectual landmark in Gilded Age–era New York City.It was founded by bibliophile and philanthropist James Lenox, and located on Fifth Avenue between 70th and 71st Streets on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
The Croton Distributing Reservoir, also known as the Murray Hill Reservoir, was an above-ground reservoir at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Covering 4 acres (16,000 m 2 ) and holding 20 million US gallons (76,000 m 3 ), [ 1 ] it supplied the city with drinking water during the 19th century.
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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.