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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 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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
City Island Library: 320 City Island Avenue 52: Clason's Point Library: 1215 Morrison Avenue Designed by John J. O'Malley. 53: Eastchester Library: 1385 East Gun Hill Road 54: Edenwald Library: 1255 East 233rd Street 55: Francis Martin Library: 2150 University Avenue Named after Francis W. Martin, the first district attorney of the Bronx. 56
Upon Lawton's retirement in 1945, chief music critic of The New York Times Olin Downes complimented her on the development of the 58th Street Library, and remarked on her achievements such as attracting donors and enlisting the concern and help of professional musicians. [36] (Many of the rare items that were gifts to the 58th Street Branch ...
Bobst Library's Lobby A view of the interior of Bobst. The library, built in 1972, [4] is NYU's largest library and one of the largest academic libraries in the U.S. Designed by Philip Johnson and Richard Foster, [4] the 12-story, 425,000 square feet (39,500 m 2) structure is the flagship of an eleven-library, 5.9 million-volume system.