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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]
1000 St. Nicholas Avenue 44: Webster Library: 1465 York Avenue Originally part of the Webster Free Library, founded by the East Side House settlement in 1894; absorbed by the NYPL in 1904, and it was set for a new library to be built with funds from Andrew Carnegie's gift to the city. [15] 45: Yorkville Library: 222 East 79th Street
Bryant Park is a 9.6-acre (3.9 ha), privately managed public park in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is located between Fifth Avenue and Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) and between 40th and 42nd Streets in Midtown Manhattan. The eastern half of Bryant Park is occupied by the Main Branch of the New York Public Library.
It also permitted construction of the New York City Subway IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line [4] which opened in 1918. [5] Extension of the avenue was under consideration for several years, and was approved by the New York City Board of Estimate in September 1911, when the first $3 million appropriation was made for the initial planning of ...
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL), formerly known as the Mid-Manhattan Library, is a branch of the New York Public Library (NYPL) at the southeast corner of 40th Street and Fifth Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It is diagonally across from the NYPL's Main Branch and Bryant Park to the northwest. The ...
The Jefferson Market Branch of the New York Public Library, once known as the Jefferson Market Courthouse, is a National Historic Landmark located at 425 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue), on the southwest corner of West 10th Street, in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City, on a triangular plot formed by Greenwich Avenue and West 10th Street.
City of New York: Maintained by: NYCDOT: Length: 3.7 mi (6.0 km) [1] Location: Manhattan, New York City: South end: Church / Franklin Streets in Tribeca: Major junctions: Herald Square in Midtown: North end: Central Park South / Center Drive in Midtown: East: Fifth Avenue (north of Waverly Pl) West: Varick Street (south of Houston Street)
Madison Avenue is a north-south avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, United States, that carries northbound one-way traffic. It runs from Madison Square (at 23rd Street ) to meet the southbound Harlem River Drive at 142nd Street , passing through Midtown , the Upper East Side (including Carnegie Hill ), East Harlem , and Harlem .