Tag: New York Public Library

• Sectional View Of New York’s New Public Library

  I love this illustration. I like to imagine that the cutaway walls are really like that, and you can go up to the roof of the library and slide down them. SECTIONAL VIEW OF NEW YORK’S PUBLIC LIBRARY: Some Idea of the Size and Completeness of the Structure May Be Had from the Accompanying Drawing. […]

  David Friedman

  May 9, 2011

  Development

  architecture, Education, New York Public Library

• New York’s Fine New Library Nearly Completed

  Because I’ve done so much research for this website in the microforms room of this building at 5th Avenue and 42nd Street, I was especially delighted to come across this article. It’s interesting to see the famous reading room totally empty of furniture. After ten years of actual construction and an expenditure of upward of […]

  David Friedman

  December 10, 2010

  Development, Literature, Recreation

  architecture, Education, New York Public Library, NYPL