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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 ...
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]
New Lots Library 665 New Lots Avenue The branch was founded in 1942 and became a BPL branch in 1949. [48] New Utrecht Library 1743 86th Street The branch was founded in 1894 as the Free Library of the Town of New Utrecht and became a BPL branch in 1901. The current building opened in 1956. [49] Pacific Library 25 Fourth Ave. at Pacific St.
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 Central Library, originally the Ingersoll Memorial Library, is the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library in Brooklyn, New York City. Located on Grand Army Plaza , at the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Eastern Parkway , it contains over 1.7 million materials in its collection and has a million annual visitors.
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL), formerly known as the Mid-Manhattan Library, is a branch of the New York Public Library (NYPL) at the southeast corner of 40th Street and Fifth Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It is diagonally across from the NYPL's Main Branch and Bryant Park to the northwest. The ...
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The Center for Fiction, originally called the New York Mercantile Library, is a not-for-profit organization in New York City, with offices at 15 Lafayette Avenue in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Prior to their move in early 2018, The Center for Fiction was located at 17 East 47th Street , between Madison and Fifth Avenues in Midtown Manhattan .