…The Astor Library on Lafayette Street in 1854, via Wikimedia Commons The Astor Library was established in 1848 as a private reference or non-circulating library open to the public. Founded by…
Read More…District. Ottendorfer Library exterior In 1884, the Free Library constructed its first purpose-built library, at 135 Second Avenue. German-American newspaper editor Oswalt Ottendorfer built and donated the library branch to…
Read More…boasts a cast-iron facade. Photo courtesy of the New York Public Library. In the Aguilar Free Library Society’s Annual report, its directors celebrated “the transfer of the library at 110th Street from a…
Read More…It was called “the City Library” until the New York Public Library was founded in 1895. According to the Society Library: In 1789 and 1790, when New York was the…
Read More…are buried in a great library without the right sort of catalogue.” The library also forbade anyone under 14 from visiting. Interest in the library declined significantly over the decades,…
Read More…Library, New York’s first free circulating branch library system upon which the New York Public Library is based (and which in 1902 absorbed the NYFCL), and later its president. Benjamin…
Read More…look of a 17th century Dutch guildhall. The library was a gift to the New York Free Circulating Library, predecessor of the public library system, from George W. Vanderbilt III,…
Read More…the Hudson Park Library in Greenwich Village. Groups of children reading on the roof of the Hamilton Fish Park Library. Source: The New York Public Library The Hamilton Park Library…
Read More…library programs. A special reading for kids at the Hudson Park Library given by Drag Queen Story Hour The Hudson Park Library is a second home for countless residents of…
Read More…inscription on the front of the Ottendorfer Library. Translated in English to “Free Library and Reading Room.” The Ottendorfer Library owes its existence to Oswald and Anna Ottendorfer. Oswald was…
Read More…Ottendorfer Library is described as follows: The Ottendorfer Library is the oldest branch library in Manhattan and one of the earliest buildings in the city constructed specifically as a public…
Read More…the Ottendorfer Library is described as follows: The Ottendorfer Library is the oldest branch library in Manhattan and one of the earliest buildings in the city constructed specifically as a…
Read More…City landmarks. The spectacular ceiling of Gould Hall The library was inspired by Thomas Jefferson’s University of Virginia Library. The interior, designed by Tiffany Studios, is richly detailed in marble,…
Read MoreOttendorfer Library-German Dispensary. On August 11, 1981, the interior first floor of the Ottendorfer Library received landmark designation from the New York City Landmark Preservation Commission. The building is a…
Read More…The Astor Library had been a free public library developed primarily through the collaboration of New York City merchant John Jacob Astor, who bequeathed $400,000 for its establishment, and New…
Read MoreTo those who had grown accustomed to keeping time by glancing at the four-faced clock on the grand tower of the Jefferson Market Library, the past several years have been…
Read MoreThe New York Public Library Tompkins Square Branch, courtesy of HDC As part of our continuing Landmarks50 celebration, and in honor of Stanford White’s birthday today (he would be a…
Read More…Library has served as an important community resource. Situated on East 10th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B, the building itself was designated an individual landmark by the city’s…
Read More…titles, is part of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation’s library. The library is open to all researchers with an appointment. Visit the GVSHP library webpage to learn more….
Read More…is part of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation’s library. The library is open to all researchers with an appointment. Visit the GVSHP library webpage to learn more. …
Read More…to promote the use of the Jefferson Market Courthouse for a library. According to the New York Public Library, “By 1959, the building had become home to only pigeons and…
Read More…Library at Columbia University. According to the collection description, the Real Estate Brochure Collections includes over 9,000 items such as advertising brochures, floor plans, and price lists for commercial and…
Read More…that offers great insight is the New York Public Library. Village Preservation staffer Hew Evans (they, them) shared that as part of the NYPL’s extensive Gay and Lesbian Collections, the…
Read More…appears today. The Astor Library at Lafayette Place The Astor Library was a free public library founded in 1848 and developed primarily through the collaboration of New York City merchant…
Read More…the Greenwich Village community from the day the library officially opened to the public. Hudson Park Library, Opening, 1906. Courtesy of NYPL Digital Collections. The library’s benefactor was Andrew Carnegie,…
Read More…East Village. On January 10, 1884, the pair turned the library over to the Free Circulating Library, which named the building in their honor. The Ottendorfer Library is the oldest…
Read More…in 2009. The Ottendorfer Library The Tompkins Square Library Just a few blocks northeast of the Offendorfer Library is the Tompkins Square Library. The three-story classical revival building, constructed in…
Read More…in this two-hour journey. Of course John adds a lot of detail to his tours about all the places along the way from one library to the next. So you…
Read More…1893 New-York Society Library, 53 East 79th St Founded in 1754, New York City’s oldest library is the New York Society Library. Still a private library to this day, it…
Read More…is the longtime library branch manager for Jefferson Market Library. He has been instrumental in helping to preserve and maintain the historic library building, which was originally a courthouse built…
Read More…printers, binders, and other artisans—the Grolier Club pursues this mission through its library, its public exhibitions and lectures, and its long and distinguished series of publications. The Grolier Club Library…
Read MoreJefferson Market Library and Garden. Photo courtesy of Jefferson Market Garden. GVSHP holds events with the Jefferson Market Library and the Jefferson Market Garden several times per year, most recently…
Read More…Library. Known as “the City Library” until the New York Public Library was founded in 1895, the library originally occupied one room in Federal Hall. According to the Society Library: In 1789…
Read More…Polyclinic (135-137 Second Avenue) Ottendorfer Library-German Dispensary. In 1884 architect William Schickel designed the New York Public Library and the German Dispensary. The Ottendorfer Library is the oldest branch library…
Read More…Ottendorfer Library is the oldest branch library in Manhattan and one of the earliest buildings in the city constructed specifically as a public library. As described in its landmark designation…
Read More…library was “the first great classical library broadly accessible to the public and set the example for such institutions as the Morgan Library [at 29 East 36th Street] and the…
Read More…wrecking ball. The Astor Library had been a free public library developed primarily through the collaboration of New York City merchant John Jacob Astor, who bequeathed $400,000 for its establishment,…
Read More…Oasis Community Garden Little Free Library (located inside the garden at 310 East 8th Street) Stuyvesant Park Little Free Library (Located inside the park near 2nd Avenue between East 15th…
Read More…Richard Morris Hunt Memorial]” New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed September 27, 2023. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-9a45-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 The New York Public Library. “What I see on Fifth Avenue” New York Public Library…
Read MoreA listening station at Jefferson Market Library. Photo by Tyler Cavallero / New York Public Library This past fall, GVSHP launched a new oral history project. This ongoing project was…
Read More…was begun in 1849 and completed in 1881. Conceived as a research library, it was “the first great classical library broadly accessible to the public and set the example for…
Read More…the Jefferson Market Library (formerly the Jefferson Market Courthouse) and the Joseph Papp Public Theater (formerly the Astor Library). It’s hard to imagine New York without these two landmarks today,…
Read More…we’re looking at the Jefferson Market Library. L: Historic view in 1963, courtesy of the New York Public Library Digital Gallery; R: Today Designed by architects Frederick Clarke Withers and…
Read MoreThe Tompkins Square Library Since it opened in 1904, the Tompkins Square Branch of the New York Public Library has served as an important community resource. Situated on East 10th…
Read More…clearly seen in decorative busts that adorn two specific buildings: the Ottendorfer Library-German Dispensary and Aschenbrodel Hall. Ottendorfer Library-German Dispensary Ottendorfer Library-German Dispensary. Photo courtesy of GVSHP. The Ottendorfer Library-German…
Read More…Catherwood Library at the Industrial Labor Relations School (ILR). The Library which is part of the Kheel Center takes great pride in showcasing their holdings on this important organization, since they…
Read More…the example for institutions like the Morgan Library and the Huntington Library. At the vote on October 26, 1965, the LPC found that, “The Astor Library has a special character,…
Read More…Broadway, Mail & Express, 1899. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. Extant buildings in red box with landmarked buildings noted by dotted line from “Broadway, West Side. 12th to…
Read More…his own innovative ideas contributed to the enduring charm of his creations, most especially in Jefferson Market Library. Jefferson Market Library circa 2021 If you are interested in learning more…
Read More…image from Health Sciences Library, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus.”he Health Sciences Library’s copy is the first edition, bound in publisher’s green cloth with gilt-stamped spine, blind-stamped boards,…
Read More…purposes: The Jefferson Market Library (formerly a courthouse), and The Public Theater (former the Astor Library). Both institutions celebrate their 50 year anniversaries this fall. In fact, these next…
Read More…York Landmarks Conservancy, the Jefferson Market Library was chosen because The Jefferson Market Branch of the New York Public Library is significant not only for its design and use of…
Read MoreJefferson Market Library and Garden. Photo courtesy of Jefferson Market Garden. Beside the Jefferson Market Library and behind the wrought iron fence between 6th and Greenwich Avenues and 10th Street…
Read MoreNew York Public Library Stephen A. Schwarzman building. Photo courtesy of the NYPL. Our Beyond the Village and Back series takes a look at great landmarks in New York City…
Read More…New York Public Library at 66 Leroy. She steadily built her literary career while working there. She quickly developed friends in the circles of literary magazines in New York, especially…
Read MoreAmong the many delights included in this weekend’s Open House New York will be three iconic Greenwich Village buildings–a Gothic Revival church with many architectural firsts, a library that was originally a…
Read More…Library. “Manhattan: 14th Street (West) – 5th Avenue” New York Public Library Digital Collections. 4-6 West 14th Street circa 2019 via Google Maps. 74-76 5th Avenue (on the left) and…
Read More…Then the library moved uptown to its current location, and in 1940 the beautiful building was replaced with an art deco apartment building. New York Society Library, 1893. Courtesy of…
Read More…(Disclosure: Veselka is owned by Tom Birchard, a Village Preservation Trustee.) The Library at The Public in NoHo The Library at The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street The Library is…
Read More…one of the first women of color to graduate from the New York Public Library School in 1923, paving the way for racial integration in our city’s library systems. She…
Read More…a model followed by many of the other structures that were part of Andrew Carnegie’s $5.2 million program for a citywide branch library system. The library, which actually required the…
Read More…Lafayette Street former-library location. That leading light institution has become a beacon of culture and a haven for forward-thinking artists throughout the world. But it didn’t come easily. 425 Lafayette…
Read More…park has also served generations of mostly poor and often immigrant or migrant New Yorkers with its ample recreation center and playfields, library, and perhaps most recognizably, its pool. Located…
Read More…to be “the first great classical library broadly accessible to the public.” The structure was designed by three different architects in three different phases: Alexander Saeltzer designed the south wing…
Read More…A Landmark is Saved – New York Times Jan. 1, 1966 Astor Library at 425 Lafayette Street, now the Public Theatre. The Astor Library at 425 Lafayette Street, now the…
Read More…library in what was then New York City, as part of the New York Free Library. The Tompkins Square Branch of the New York Public Library, built in 1904, was one of…
Read More…library’s construction was funded by bibliophile George W. Vanderbilt, who gifted it to the Free Circulating Library, predecessor of the New York Public Library. The front façade stands out as…
Read More…Drawing, Italian Film, the Nature of Evil, and many other subjects that would be more common in a private university than a public library. The Jefferson Market Library Frank’s motto…
Read MoreThe caption provided reads: “Tompkins Square, waiting their turn to enter the library. The children’s room is already full, 3.30 P.M.” Tompkins Square Library opened at 331 E. 10th Street,…
Read More…Jefferson Market Library The Jefferson Market Library, on Sixth Avenue and West 10th Street, with its noteworthy clock and bell tower, is a great example of a beautiful and historic…
Read More…new life as a branch of the New York Public Library in 1967. In 1969, the newly-named Jefferson Market Library was landmarked as part of the Greenwich Village Historic District;…
Read More…via Library of Congress Simkhovitch was one of the pioneers of the Settlement House movement, established to aid and support recent immigrants to this country. In 1902, she and Jacob Riis,…
Read More…and the preservationists whose work has shaped the landscapes of the neighborhoods we love so much. Explore GVSHP’s collection of oral histories here. Sources: http://www.genealogy.com/articles/research/2_oralhs.html https://womenslibrary.org.uk/2017/08/09/what-are-oral-histories-and-why-are-they-important/ https://www.orfonline.org/research/importance-of-oral-history/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/wellness/1996/01/30/passing-down-memories-the-importance-of-oral-history/c2ebd95c-37b6-4a10-b63c-3c8639934015/?utm_term=.92c2f761582a http://library.columbia.edu/content/dam/libraryweb/locations/ohro/The%20Oral%20History%20Bibliography%20–%20A%20CCOH%20Publication.pdf https://www.howardzinn.org/if-history-is-to-be-creative/…
Read More…of adaptive reuse, the erstwhile courthouse now serves the community as a library. Jefferson Market Library, an erstwhile courthouse, was saved from the wrecking ball by a last-ditch community effort…
Read More…with only 126 designated throughout the city. Landmarked interior Astor Hall of the NY Public Library, around 1911-1920. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection. The…
Read More…led a grassroots effort to save the building, a coalition that successfully thwarted the plans and provided the building new life as a branch of the New York Public Library…
Read More…a poll of American architects taken in the 1880s, the Jefferson Market Library placed fifth among the ten most beautiful buildings in the United States. Jefferson Market Library. NYPL Vaux…
Read More…and the notorious and imposing Women’s House of Detention. Prior to its current incarnation as a beloved library, the Jefferson Market Library, which now frames the view from Patchin Place, was abandoned…
Read More…and Genealogy, The New York Public Library. “Manhattan: 2nd Street – Avenue C” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1915. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-f56c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 By comparing the height of the building relative…
Read More…I’m a parent of a 2-year-old, it really does feels like a neighborhood. The libraries we go to all the time–the Hudson Park Library and the Jefferson Market Library–are fantastic….
Read More…Public Library. The “Then” photograph in this article, courtesy of the Library of Congress, shows Peter Newton and Forest Mann in front of the building that housed The Ink Pot….
Read MoreWestbeth. Photo courtesy of Shelley Seccombe This week, our friends at the Jefferson Market Branch Library will host workshops for a new project they are undertaking called Your Village, Your…
Read More…convinced the Mayor to preserve the building as a library. Architect Giorgio Cavaglieri, who also adapted the Astor Library into the Public Theatre on Lafayette Street, converted the courthouse into…
Read More…up plans for an institution that would include a library, a lecture hall, and a museum of artifacts. On November 20, 1894, the New-York Historical Society was founded. And while…
Read More…serve as a library until 1911. In the decades between its original use as a library and its adaptive reuse as a theater, the building was home to the Hebrew…
Read More…the Library of Congress. Max Eastman was born on January 4th, 1883 to parents who were progressive ministers at the Park Church in Elmira, New York. The church was founded…
Read More…of the Library of Congress. May Childs Nerney, a secretary of the NAACP, ran the organization’s nationwide campaign against The Birth of a Nation, obtaining letters, securing petitions, planning protest…
Read More…Week” to All National Society Secretaries; 1945. Letter courtesy of ArtStore Library. Black History week, or “Negro History Week”, was begun in 1926 by the noted Black historian and educator…
Read MoreBeatrix Farrand in Maine at her Reef Point library, Beatrix Jones Farrand Collection, 1955-2, Environmental Design Archives, College of Environmental Design. 21 East 11th Street in the Greenwich Village Historic…
Read More…the library to the Upper East Side facing Central Park between East 70th and 71st Streets, and established it as a semi-private institution that stayed in operation past its founder’s…
Read More…Division, The New York Public Library. (1919). Arthur A. Schomburg (far right) and Harry A. Williamson (third from left) in a group portrait with fellow members of the Prince Hall Grand…
Read More…organizations like the Salmagundi Club, Merchant’s House Museum, New York Public Library, and the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS). Plaque Unveiling: Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs’ Former East Village Residence…
Read More…shopping bags and Steve stepping in gum right in front of the picturesque public space. The Jefferson Market Library, formerly the Jefferson Market Courthouse, was designed by architect Frederick Clarke…
Read More…Book, January 1920, via the Library of Congress The Brownies’ Book: A Monthly Magazine for Children of the Sun was published in 1920-21 at 70 Fifth Avenue (2-6 West 13th…
Read More…giant puppets operated by hundreds of volunteers, dozens of floats, and 50 marching bands. The famous Jefferson Market Library Tower spider joined the parade in 1977. The current iteration of…
Read More…Library. She is best known, however, for her series of children’s books centered around Jenny Linsky, a small yet precocious black cat. The first in the series, The Cat Club,…
Read More…focus on rehabilitation, with sewing classes, a library, and rooftop recreation area where inmates could participate in different sports and other athletic activities. The prison also featured WPA commissioned artwork…
Read MoreFrom top left: Photo of Robert Frost via Wikimedia, Photo of Emily Post via Library of Congress, Photo of Henry Miller via Wikimedia; From bottom left: Photo of James Baldwin by Allan Warren…
Read More…Tompkins Square Library or any other public institution? ABC No Rio asked for a copy for their zine library…so I gave them one. They’re a fine upstanding public institution. But…
Read MoreFrom top left: Photo of Robert Frost via Wikimedia, Photo of Emily Post via Library of Congress, Photo of Henry Miller via Wikimedia; From bottom left: Photo of James Baldwin by Allan Warren…
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