New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Historic Site · New York, New York
The Beaux-Arts main branch on Fifth Avenue, opened 1911 on the site of the drained Croton Distributing Reservoir, and one of the great public buildings in America — free to enter, free to use, and guarded by the marble lions PATIENCE and FORTITUDE, named by Mayor La Guardia in the Depression for the qualities he thought New Yorkers needed. The Rose Main Reading Room is 78 feet wide and 297 feet long under a painted sky.
476 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, 10018, United States
⚠ FREE — it is a working public library and anyone may enter, use the Rose Main Reading Room and see the Treasures exhibition at no charge. Generally open Monday to Saturday with reduced hours on some days; ⚠ THE SCHWARZMAN BUILDING HAS HISTORICALLY BEEN CLOSED ON SUNDAYS and the ROSE MAIN READING ROOM CLOSES FOR EVENTS AND FILMING WITHOUT MUCH NOTICE — check nypl.org before travelling, because the Reading Room is what most visitors come for. Free daily tours from Astor Hall. ⚠ HOURS NOT VERIFIED FOR THIS FILE.
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