The reading room concept originally came from the New York Public Library, during the Depression.
Despite economic woes, the Bryant Park tents behind the New York Public Library were packed with people.
Barbara ran it, carefully doling out contributions to Jewish charities, medical researchers and the New York Public Library.
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Last month, at the New York Public Library, Google hosted a conference on the future of the publishing industry.
Adjacent to the New York Public Library, this is a handy place for a midtown lunch or for pretheater.
Ms. Dewey-Hagborg currently is in talks with the New York Public Library for putting the exhibition on display there.
His third wife, Gayfryd, sat on the board of the New York Public Library and was a renowned charity fundraiser.
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Louis, you can get a preview of what the New York Public Library might look like if its plan is realized.
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The letters will be on exhibit through June 17 and will remain a part of the New York Public Library's collections.
She was one of the city's leading philanthropists, awarding millions of dollars to institutions, most notably the New York Public Library.
The Forbes 400 Summit, held at the New York Public Library in late June, was truly a special day.
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Mr. Ortiz said that this month he's already rung his bell outside the New York Public Library, Grand Central and Bryant Park.
If ever there were an elevator to pitch in, it was that one at the New York Public Library on that day.
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The company is also retrieving books from libraries at several other leading universities, including Harvard and Oxford, as well as the New York Public Library.
Since then honey badger has reached near ubiquity as a meme, with everyone from Olivia Wilde to the New York Public Library dropping references.
Bird says she only has time to blog four to five hours a night, given her full-time job as children's librarian at the New York Public Library.
The Summit, the highlight of the 3oth anniversary of the Forbes 400 List, was held by Forbes at the New York Public Library in June.
Like the Queens and Brooklyn library systems, the New York Public Library, too, is creating more public spaces in new and renovated branch libraries and at the Schwarzman building.
So on June 26, 161 billionaires and near-billionaires gathered at the New York Public Library for The Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy, the greatest-ever meeting of its kind.
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Which brings us back to the New York Public Library.
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The Astor Foundation gave millions to New York cultural jewels -- including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New York Public Library -- as well as lower-profile programs.
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Starwood acquired the rights to the site from hotel developer Orient Express, which had a contract to buy the land from the New York Public Library but never closed.
Mr. Berman, 44, recently combed through past phone books stored on microfilm at the New York Public Library as a way to track the growth of the city's pizza industry.
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Last December, Google unveiled a gargantuan effort to scan the library collections of Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, the University of Michigan and the New York Public Library into an Internet database.
On Tuesday the New York Public Library opened an exhibit of 300 Holocaust-era letters saved by Sala Garncarz, a Jewish woman who, as a teen, spent five years in the labor camps.
And if the publication of Leary's archive speeds that process up by exorcising a ghost that still haunts LSD research, then the New York Public Library will have done the world a service.
In announcing the event on May 9, the New York Public Library said that Salman Khan believes that his interactive videos, used by millions of students, parents, and teachers across the world, can revolutionize education.
Bernard Green, who devised the system for the Library of Congress that was built a few years earlier than the New York Public Library, was hired as the engineering consultant for the New York stacks.
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"I thought it made so much more sense and so did the New York Public Library that we reach an agreement for Pennsylvania and New York to share a document that we all share, " Mr. Harmelin said.
Individual libraries sometimes received grants to scan specific collections in 2001, the New York Public Library used federal money to digitize a substantial portion of the collection at its Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture but a comprehensive effort seemed inconceivable.
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