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Leonard Library 81 Devoe Street The 26,000-square-foot (2,400 m 2) library opened in 1908 and was designed by William Tubby. [43] Macon Library: 361 Lewis Avenue The Macon Library was the 11th Carnegie Brooklyn library. Mapleton Library 1702 60th Street Founded in the 1930s, the Mapleton branch moved to its present building in 1955. [44] Marcy ...
53rd Street Library [3] 18 West 53rd Street The 53rd Street branch opened on June 27, 2016. [3] 6: 115th Street Library: 203 West 115th Street Designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened in 1907 7: 125th Street Library: 224 East 125th Street Designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened in 1904. 8: 58th Street Library: 127 East 58th Street
The 57th Street station opened in 1968, [129] [130] upon which trains to 57th Street began serving the 42nd Street station. [131] The portion of the Chrystie Street Connection connecting the Sixth Avenue Line with the Williamsburg Bridge opened on July 1, 1968, and was used by the KK train [ 132 ] until that route was discontinued in 1976.
Brooklyn Heights' first library was founded in 1857 by the Mercantile Library Association of the City of Brooklyn. The first BPL branch in the neighborhood, the Montague Street branch, was opened in 1903. The Brooklyn Heights branch building at 280 Cadman Plaza West opened in 1962 and originally contained an auditorium and children's room.
The New York Public Library: The Architecture and Decoration of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. New York, NY: W.W. Norton and Company. ISBN 978-0-393-07810-7. Sherman, Scott (2015). Patience and fortitude : power, real estate, and the fight to save a public library, Brooklyn; London : Melville House, ISBN 978-1-61219-429-5
The New York Public Library's Main Branch measures 390 feet (120 m) on its north–south axis by 270 feet (82 m) on its west–east axis. [45] [63] [145] The library is located on the east side of the block bounded by Fifth Avenue on the east, 40th Street on the south, Sixth Avenue on the west, and 42nd Street on the north. [197]
The 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal station is an express station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue in Manhattan, it is served by the A and E trains at all times, and by the C train at all times except late nights.
In 1852, several prominent citizens established the "Brooklyn Athenaeum and Reading Room" for the instruction of young men. It was as was the practice in those times, a private, subscription library for members, who were recruited and encouraged by the rising mercantile and business class of young men, to continue by constant reading whatever formal education they had received through a ...