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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.
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 Bryant Park restroom is a public toilet in Bryant Park, an urban park in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The 315-square-foot (29.3 m 2) structure was built at the same time as the New York Public Library Main Branch and designed by the same architects. It opened in 1911 and closed in the 1960s as the surrounding park deteriorated.
The Brentwood Public Library is a public library in Brentwood, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. [1] Established in 1938, the library holds more than 53,000 items. It offers several activities and services for all ages. [2] It is a member of the Municipal Library Consortium of St. Louis County, nine independent libraries in St. Louis County. [3]
The Croton Distributing Reservoir, also known as the Murray Hill Reservoir, was an above-ground reservoir at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Covering 4 acres (16,000 m 2) and holding 20 million US gallons (76,000 m 3), [1] it supplied the city with drinking water during the 19th century.
When the New York Public Library was founded in 1895, its founders wanted an imposing main branch building. [ 20 ] : 2 The trustees of the libraries chose to build the branch at the eastern end of Bryant Park, along Fifth Avenue between 40th and 42nd Streets, because it was centrally located between the Astor and Lenox Libraries , the library's ...
The name was originally supposed to apply to the block bounded by Park Avenue, Lexington Avenue, 41st Street, and 42nd Street. Three buildings were ultimately developed on the block in the 1920s: the Pershing Square Building, 110 East 42nd Street, and the Chanin Building. Subsequently, the name applied to the service roads of the Park Avenue ...