The New York Public Library
The birth of a grand system
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Secrets of the flagship branch
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Oddities and treasures in the vaults
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Astor, Lenox, Tilden's call, Built a public library for all!
Library apartments: Until the 2000s, some NYPL branch custodians lived with their families in secret apartments inside the library buildings to maintain the coal furnaces.
The 1895 merging of the Astor and Lenox libraries with the Tilden Trust to create the New York Public Library. It's why millions of books are free for everyone.
Whose massive $5.2 million donation in 1901 funded the construction of 65 historic neighborhood branches of the NYPL?
In what year did the Astor and Lenox libraries officially merge with the Tilden Trust to form the NYPL?
What crucial daily job required early NYPL neighborhood custodians to live in secret apartments inside the libraries?
What material from the demolished Croton Reservoir was recycled to build the foundation of the NYPL main branch?
Which two NYC boroughs have library systems entirely separate from the New York Public Library (NYPL)?