New York Public Library

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News about New York Public Library, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

  1. Nov. 24, 2014

    New York City and New York Public Library announce $18 million plan to take over part of Huntington Free Library and Reading Room's one-acre site on Westchester Square in the Bronx, building modern glass-and-steel structure that would become new public library branch for neighborhood; project would be largest effort to date to revitalize Westchester Square, which anchors a diverse working-class neighborhood. MORE

  2. Aug. 7, 2014

    English-language classes at New York City's public libraries are so popular that people in some neighborhoods stand in line for hours to sign up and many have to be turned away when they reach capacity; about 3.9 million residents in city speak language other than English at home. MORE

  3. Jul. 9, 2014

    Jim Dwyer About New York column; broadband access has an annual cost of close to $1,000 per home in New York City, leaving about 2.9 million people in digital dark; city's libraries provide free access within their facilities, but will now try lending people a small box that provides free wireless Internet service for up to five users at a time. MORE

  4. Jun. 2, 2014

    Library officials announce that New York Public Library's revised renovation plan to upgrade Mid-Manhattan Library and create more public space in its flagship Fifth Avenue building is expected to cost about $300 million; original plan would have cost $500 million. MORE

  5. May. 31, 2014

    Rose Main Reading Room in the New York Public Library temporarily closes after plaster falls from the ceiling; room is being thoroughly inspected for safety, and is expected to open in several weeks. MORE

  6. May. 21, 2014

    New York Public Library is in midst of processing archives of writer Tom Wolfe, encompassing 170 linear feet of manuscripts, reporter's notebooks, newspaper clippings, sketches and other materials; archive includes unusually rich vein of correspondence from editors, research subjects, fellow writers and ordinary readers. MORE

  7. May. 14, 2014

    Editorial welcomes New York Public Library's decision to abandon its plan to renovate its landmark building in Midtown, opting instead for a more modest, cheaper, quicker and smarter plan; contends library's reversal was motivated by the best of reasons. MORE

  8. May. 8, 2014

    New York Public Library abandons controversial renovation plan that would have turned its research flagship on 42nd Street into a circulating library; change in course comes as Mayor Bill de Blasio prepares to announce his final budget; library is still expected to receive the $150 million that had been allotted to the project under the Bloomberg administration, but library hopes to use it for other purposes like creating more public space and refurbishing the nearby Mid-Manhattan Library. MORE

  9. Apr. 6, 2014

    Corey Kilgannon Character Study column on Jaime Herrera, 14-year veteran of cleaning staff at New York Public LIbrary's main branch at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street; Herrera is one of most sociable and involved employees at branch, despite being deaf since childhood and unable to speak. MORE

  10. Mar. 12, 2014

    A patron of the New York Public Library, who died last summer, set aside $6 million for the library in her will, the library announced on Wednesday. MORE

  11. Feb. 27, 2014

    David W Dunlap Building Blocks column; Washington Heights Library, which will re-open for first time in almost four years after $12.4 million renovation, will include what may be first plaque bearing name of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. MORE

  12. Feb. 27, 2014

    New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has yet to decide whether city will continue funding renovation of New York Public Library's Fifth Avenue flagship; revised design and cost analysis promised by library are months overdue; Committee to Save the New York Public Library opposes the renovation. MORE

  13. Dec. 12, 2013

    David W Dunlap Building Blocks column on Mariners Harbor Library on Staten Island,which is 88th branch of New York Public Library and first newly established branch since opening of Battery Park City Library in March 2010; library is housed in bright, new building that sets hopeful tone. MORE

  14. Nov. 21, 2013

    New York Public Library buys archives of novelist and journalist Tom Wolfe for $2.15 million. MORE

  15. Oct. 3, 2013

    Michael Kimmelman asserts that one way New York can prepare its neighborhoods for the next disaster after Hurricane Sandy is to build more branch libraries; notes that libraries, which serve as everyday community centers, are an ideal place to shelter people during storms. MORE

  16. Jul. 15, 2013

    It may not be an official holiday, but National Dork Day was a cause for celebration at a library branch on Staten Island. MORE

  17. Jun. 28, 2013

    New York Public Library president Tony Marx, responding to criticism that cost projections for renovation of library's flagship branch are not to be trusted, announces that he will commission a separate review of the plan. MORE

  18. Jun. 23, 2013

    Character Study column on Rosalind Gutierrez, Staten Island native who is legendary among New York Public Library officials for her obsessive approach to collecting signatures every spring on forms decrying possible city budget cuts to libraries. MORE

  19. Jun. 21, 2013

    Edward Rothstein reviews exhibition The ABC of It: Why Children's Books Matter at New York Public Library. MORE

  20. May. 18, 2013

    Francis X Clines The City Life column praises rich trove of archives and resources at the New York Public Library's Milstein Division, which has cross-referenced names and addresses with long-awaited 1940 census data; holds result is eye-opening for scholars and family genealogists both. MORE

  21. May. 7, 2013

    Donnell Library Center, branch of the New York Public Library, has been reconceived to fit at base of high-rise hotel and is designed to emphasize places to congregate rather than those for books. MORE

  22. Feb. 17, 2013

    Christopher Gray Streetscapes column; plans to convert rear interior of New York Public Library building on Fifth Avenue from stacks into reading room have drawn attention to building's back facade, one of few in city to compete with its front face in terms of design. MORE

  23. Feb. 4, 2013

    Tour featuring hats from personal collection of Theodor Seuss Geisel, also known as Dr Seuss, will open at New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue; show, which highlights role of hats in Geisel's life, is timed to correspond with 75th anniversary of his book The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins. MORE

  24. Jan. 30, 2013

    Michael Kimmelman Critic's Notebook expresses dismay with architect Norman Foster's plans to revamp and modernize New York Public Library's main 42nd Street building; notes new circulating library would be installed under reading room; contends his designs are not worthy of him and have all elegance and distinction of suburban mall. MORE

  25. Jan. 2, 2013

    Donations totaling about $20 million have begun flowing to the New York Public Library and the Central Park Conservancy from estate of Mary McConnell Bailey; private and quiet New Yorker, who died without an obituary or services in February, 2011, left little hint of the fortune she planned to bequeath on two favorite city institutions. MORE

  26. Dec. 19, 2012

    New York Public Library, in effort to silence complaints of secrecy in revamping of the landmark building, plans to unveil Norman Foster's design for a new circulating library in its Fifth Avenue flagship. MORE

  27. Oct. 11, 2012

    Profile of Tony Marx, New York Public Library president who is trying to bring the institution into the 21st century without losing the social cachet it gained in the 20th. MORE

  28. Sep. 20, 2012

    New York Public Library, in response to public outcry, revises the plan for its flagship Fifth Avenue research center, promising to keep most of its research materials on hand. MORE

  29. Sep. 2, 2012

    Sam Roberts introduces list of 50 objects that could embody the history of New York City, as identified by historians and curators from the New-York Historical Society, the New York Public Library and the American Museum of Natural History, among others; project was inspired by A History of the World in 100 Objects, the British Museum’s BBC radio series and book. MORE

  30. Jun. 23, 2012

    Edward Rothstein reviews exhibit Lunch Hour NYC, an examination of how workers in the city have eaten over the years, at the New York Public Library. MORE

  31. Jun. 10, 2012

    Ginia Bellafante Big City column suggests that fears surrounding the New York Public Library’s plan to expand its central branch at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street may be unfounded; says protests against the expansion are led by those who worry that the addition of a circulating library and more common space would compromise the branch's integrity as a research institution, but there is little evidence that this is true. MORE

  32. May. 24, 2012

    Many former employees of the New York Public Library feel that the nondisparagement agreements they signed in exchange for severance pay prohibit them from from taking part in the debate over the library's proposed $300 million redevelopment plan; library officials say the agreements are standard and not intended to curtail free speech. MORE

  33. May. 23, 2012

    New York Public Library officials come under fire during panel discussion held to debate $300 million plan to redevelop flagship Fifth Avenue branch; critics say proposed changes, which call for putting up to half of the branch's three million volumes into storage in New Jersey, would diminish the library's role as a leading reference center; urge that redevelopment funds be directed instead toward rejuvenating dilapidated branch libraries. MORE

  34. May. 9, 2012

    Editorial praises proposal to renovate the flagship building of the New York Public Library system; cautions library's overseers to take care that they preserve the essence of the cultural landmark. MORE

  35. Apr. 22, 2012

    Op-Ed article by author Edmund Morris expresses concern over the proposed renovation plans for the New York Public Library's main building. MORE

  36. Apr. 16, 2012

    Anthony W Marx, the president of the New York Public Library, is engaged in a public-relations blitz to address criticism from scholars and writers who object to the library’s plan to reimagine its Fifth Avenue flagship building at an estimated cost of $300 million. MORE

  37. Feb. 16, 2012

    New York Public Library moves ahead with its ambitious $1 billion plan to overhaul its branches and renovate its Fifth Avenue flagship; plan, which was announced in 2008 but languished because of the economic downturn and changes in library leadership, now involves selling the Mid-Manhattan branch and the Science, Industry and Business Library. MORE

  38. Jan. 3, 2012

    New York Public Library's 62 Queens branches are striving to cater to borough's intensifying globalization by increasing offerings in foreign languages. MORE

  39. Dec. 19, 2011

    New York Public Library is in talks to sell five floors at 188 Madison Avenue, which houses the Science, Business and Industry Library; library will remain there and proceeds will go to transforming main Fifth Avenue site into combined research and circulating library. MORE

  40. Nov. 15, 2011

    Brian Seibert reviews premier performance of dance by Australian choreographer Lee Serle at New York Public Library. MORE

  41. Nov. 8, 2011

    Anthony Marx, president of the New York Public Library, is arrested on drunken-driving charges after the library-owned car he was driving was backed into a parked vehicle in Upper Manhattan. MORE

  42. Nov. 2, 2011

    Bertha Franklin Feder Award program offers two employees of New York Public Library system $2,000 every year for 23 years, in part to recognize librarians' dedicated but underpaid labor. MORE

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ARTICLES ABOUT THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

Bronx Library May Get a New Neighbor: Another Library

Putting a New York Public Library branch next to the Huntington Free Library and Reading Room is part of an $18 million plan that could help revitalize Westchester Square, a once-thriving commercial hub.

November 24, 2014, Monday

New York Public Library Names New Chairman

Evan R. Chesler, the chairman of the law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore, will take over as the library chairman from Neil L. Rudenstine.

November 14, 2014, Friday
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Existentialism and Romantic Love in a Philosophy 101

In a series of classes, the New York Public Library’s Jefferson Market branch will offer guidance on applying existential philosophy to affairs of the heart.

November 14, 2014, Friday

New York Public Library Chairman to Step Down

Neil L. Rudenstine has presided over the library – along with Anthony W. Marx, its president – during planning for the institution’s controversial renovation.

October 30, 2014, Thursday

Library's Master Plan Expected in the Spring

Officials at the New York Public Library say that the master planning process is not expected to be finished until April.

October 9, 2014, Thursday

New York City Libraries Struggle to Meet Demand for English-Language Classes

In a city where about 3.9 million residents speak a language other than English at home, the classes are so popular that people in some neighborhoods stand in line for hours to sign up.

August 7, 2014, Thursday

Live From the Public Library: Joseph O'Neill, Joyce Carol Oates and Dr. Funkenstein

The Live From the NYPL season will include appearances by novelists and scholars, as well as George Clinton, the Parliament-Funkadelic mastermind.

July 31, 2014, Thursday
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Weinshall to Become New York Public Library's Chief Operating Officer

Iris Weinshall, previously the commissioner of New York’s Department of Transportation, will oversee operations starting Sept. 1.

July 10, 2014, Thursday
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For Those in the Digital Dark, Enlightenment Is Borrowed From the Library

For most of New York City, two companies, Time Warner and Verizon, provide broadband access at an annual cost of close to $1,000 per home. But for many houses, that means no access at all.

July 9, 2014, Wednesday

An Unrevised View of the Declaration of Independence

The New York Public Library is displaying a copy of the Declaration written out by Thomas Jefferson, which includes text that was edited in the final version.

July 3, 2014, Thursday
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A Farewell to Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou, the memoirist, poet and author of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” died Wednesday. Her manuscripts are being preserved at the Harlem-based branch of the New York Public Library.

‘The ABC of It’

An exhibit exploring the world of children’s literature opens Friday at the New York Public Library.

Modernizing the New York Public Library

Michael Kimmelman on the $300 million plan to renovate the legendary structure.

Children’s Library Discovery Center

A new addition to Queens Central Library is part of a quiet revolution reshaping New York’s public architecture.

Children’s Library Discovery Center

A new addition to Queens Central Library is part of a quiet revolution reshaping New York’s public architecture.

Inside the Timothy Leary Archives

Selections from Leary’s papers, which have been acquired by the New York Public Library.

Inside the Timothy Leary Archives

Selections from Leary’s papers, which have been acquired by the New York Public Library.

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