History
In 1976, Dorothy and Herman Reade of Forest Hills, Queens, retired to Roosevelt Island and made it their goal to create a community libr...
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Branch History:
The 67th Street Branch was one of the Carnegie branches built with funds donated to the City of New York by Andrew Carnegie. Th...
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History
Among the oldest libraries in New York City, the Webster Branch has a history that can be traced back to 1893, before its incorporat...
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History
The Easton Library was established in 1879 as part of the Friends' Seminary. On February 18, 1895, the library received its first charte...
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Branch History:
The 58th Street Branch of The New York Public Library opened on May 10, 1907. Once housed in a Carnegie building it now occupies...
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About the Library:
The one-story Carnegie library opened in 1908. The building features five-bays, 10,000 plus square feet and a stone-trimmed doo...
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Branch History The Kips Bay Branch of The New York Public Library opened in 1972, replacing two former libraries: St. Gabriel's and Nathan Straus....
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Mission Statement
The Frick Collection's mission is:
- To preserve and display for the public the Collection, and to augment its holdings in fiel...
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The Donnell Library Center houses The New York Public Library branch system's largest circulating collection of materials in languages other than E...
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Mission:
The mission of The Morgan Library & Museum is to preserve, build, study, present, and interpret a collection of extraordinary quality...
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Branch History:
The Epiphany Branch of The New York Public Library, once part of the Cathedral Library Association founded by the Roman Catholi...
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