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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.
Library Image Address Historical Note; 1: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (Main Branch) Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street: Built after the New York Public Library was formed as a combination of two libraries in the late 1890s. The architectural firm Carrère and Hastings constructed the structure in the Beaux-Arts style, and the structure opened on ...
The Broad Channel branch has been open since the summer of 1990–present. [2] 10: Broadway: 40-20 Broadway, Astoria, NY 11103 The Broadway branch first opened in 1906 at 37-19 Broadway Astoria, New York. It moved five subsequent times until it was relocated to 40-20 Broadway Astoria, on April 28, 1958, where it remains today. [2] 11: Cambria ...
Bulletin of the New York Public Library. Vol. 20. pp. 685– 734. Lydenburg, Harry Miller (1923). History of the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The New York Public Library. Myers, Andrew B. The Worlds of Washington Irving: 1783–1859 (1974) Reed, Henry Hope. The New York Public Library: Its Architecture and ...
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 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 ...
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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.