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The writer Scott Sherman said that, "in the end, elected officials in New York City had to save the NYPL from its own trustees." [159] In May 2014, one of the rosettes in the ceiling of the Rose Main Reading Room fell to the floor. [160] The NYPL closed the Rose Main Reading Room and the Public Catalog Room for renovations.
"Libraries in New York City." Public Libraries 1:7, Nov. 1896 "Libraries of the City of New York." Libraries of Greater New York. NY: New York Library Club, 1902; Hedbavny, L. "Some Leisure-Time Organizations in New York City, 1830-1870: Clubs, Lyceums, and Libraries." Master's thesis, New York University, 1952. Harold Augenbraum.
Former Governor of New York and presidential candidate Samuel J. Tilden believed that a library with citywide reach was required, and upon his death in 1886, he bequeathed the bulk of his fortune—about $2.4 million (equivalent of $81 million in 2023)—to "establish and maintain a free library and reading room in the city of New York". [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 Library: 33 East Broadway
The Donnell Library Center was a branch of the New York Public Library at 20 West 53rd Street. It closed on August 30, 2008. It closed on August 30, 2008. The library was famous for housing the collection of the original Winnie the Pooh dolls behind bulletproof glass in a display in the Children’s Reading Room.
The library became a focal point to the burgeoning Harlem Renaissance. [7] In 1923, the 135th Street branch was the only branch in New York City employing Negroes as librarians, [12] and consequently when Regina M. Anderson was hired by the NYPL, she was sent to work at the 135th Street branch. [10] [13]
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.
The Ottendorfer Public Library and Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital are a pair of historic buildings at 135 and 137 Second Avenue in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The buildings house the Ottendorfer Branch of the New York Public Library , as well as the women's workspace The Wing within the former Stuyvesant ...