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Thanks to New York City’s new $115.9 billion budget, 10 more public library branches across the five boroughs will now be ...
T he New York Public Library abandoned the plan on May 7, 2014. The “greatest project ever” never came to fruition. Weeks later, ...
The New York Public Library Image The Donnell Library Center on West 53rd Street, photographed in 1961, housed a large children’s collection before closing in 2008.
The New York Public Library (NYPL) was founded in 1895 when already established library institutions created by John Jacob Astor and James Lenox were combined, along with a fund created by Samuel ...
NYC officials reached a $115.9 billion budget agreement for FY26, including funding that will expand 7-day library service to ...
Vartan Gregorian in 2009. A brilliant historian and educator, he led Brown University and the Carnegie Corporation, but his crowning achievement was the revival of the New York Public Library.
The New York Public Library is one of many across the country that have stopped charging fees for overdue materials in an effort to remove barriers to access. Accessibility links.
This week, the New York Public Library did away with fines and fees because of the exclusionary impact of library fines and card blocks – which often disproportionately affect low-income families.
Jacobson said that the Albany Public Library and the New York State Attorney General’s Office of Civil Rights have not replied to the EPP's March 20 letter.
Hence the majestic main reading room at the New York Public Library, which stretches for two city blocks. Beneath it lie the stacks, where the library keeps many of its 50 million items.
The New York Society Library might just be one of the city’s best-kept secrets. Located in a beautiful townhouse at 53 E. 79th St. (near Madison Ave), ...