Feb 10, 2012
Also Visit NY State Arts
Libraries
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Brooklyn
This library system--the fifth largest in the country--serves more than six million people each year. The famous Central Library, whose building resembles an open book, is the main reference center and the core of a borough-wide system with 58 branches in as many neighborhoods.
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Queens
Mon & Thurs 1-8 pm
Tues 1-6 pm
Wed & Fri 10 am-6 pm
Sat & Sun closed
Foreign language collections at this branch include Chinese, French, Italian and Spanish.
For more information on the branch, click here.
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Manhattan
Enter Barnard’s gates at 117th and Broadway and the experience is unique. Immediately obvious is how picturesque and green their four-acre campus is, and how intimate it feels in the midst of New York City.
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Manhattan
The Diana Center houses the Glicker-Milstein Black Box Theatre, the Event Oval, Liz's Place, the Anna Quindlen Conference Room, the Louise Heublein McGagg ’59 Gallery and the Green Roof.
Battery Park City Library—New York Public Library
Manhattan
Mon & Wed: 10 am-6 pm
Tues & Thurs: 12-8 pm
Fri & Sat: 10 am-5 pmNew York Public Library's first green LEED certified branch in Manhattan opened on March 18, 2010 on the bottom two floors of a residential high-rise. Designed by the architecture firm 1100 Architects, the branch includes 24,000 items, 36 public access computers and separate reading areas for children, young adults and adults. There is a multipurpose programming room on the second floor and two self-checkout machines. For more information on the branch, click here.
Baychester Branch—New York Public Library
Bronx
Mon - Thurs: 10 am-8 pm
Fri & Sat: 10 am-5 pmThe Baychester Branch of The New York Public Library has been providing library services to Co-op City and the surrounding community since its opening in 1973. Occupying a single floor, the air-conditioned library has separate adult, young adult and children's collections. The extensive reference collection includes periodicals, newspapers and electronic services. A meeting room often used for library programs seats 70. The branch's location, in the Bartow Shopping Center, makes the library a very popular resource for community residents and contributes to its being one of the busiest branches in the Bronx.
The library has a small circulating collection of descriptive videos for the blind and visually impaired; a Personal Reading Machine; computer screen magnification software, and a Closed-Circuit Television Enlarger.For more information on the branch, click here.
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