New York Public Library Secret Rooms

Access to the library s stacks and large reference rooms too.

New york public library secret rooms.

The center s four study rooms are reserved for qualified researchers and writers whose work will benefit from the consultation and intensive use of r esearch collections related to the humanities and social sciences. The library s programming room is a dark and narrow space on the. Children out of the reading rooms with a story about the red headed ghost that walked the library attic above the reading room and. Secret apartments inside more than a dozen new york public libraries stand old vacant apartments.

Inside the secret apartments of new york s public libraries. Most adults have to lower their heads a little bit while crossing the threshold into the secret room and don t see the. The central library of rochester and monroe county holds many secrets but none so enchanting as the george w. The collection of over 200 dolls is tucked away within another secret the secret room in the children s center of the library.

The apartments were once. Not many people know about them. Floor of the 42nd street branch of the new york public library in 1910. But these secret spots won t remain empty forever the rooms above the.

The new york public library also offers competitive fellowship programs please apply for access to the research study rooms using the online form. Inside the secret apartments of new york s libraries. By sarah laskow october 7 2016. The new york public library nypl was founded in 1895 when already established library institutions created by john jacob astor and james lenox were combined along with a fund created by samuel.

Inside the new york public library s last secret apartments there are just 13 left. Even the original new york public library on 42nd street once had an apartment above it where tenants lived until 1941.