List of New York Public Library branches

The New York Public Library system includes libraries in Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island. This page is organized by borough, and alphabetically.

The boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens are supported by their own separate library systems.^[1]

Research libraries

	Library	Image	Address	Historical Note
1	Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (Main Branch)		Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street
2	Library for the Performing Arts (Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center)		40 Lincoln Center Plaza
3	Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture		515 Malcolm X Boulevard	Designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened in 1905.
4	Science, Industry and Business Library		188 Madison Avenue

Libraries in Manhattan

	Library	Image	Address	Historical Note
5	115th Street Library		203 West 115th Street	Designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened in 1907
6	125th Street Library		224 East 125th Street	Designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened in 1904.
7	58th Street Library		127 East 58th Street	Originally designed by Carrère & Hastings and opened May 10, 1907. The original building was demolished and replaced by a new branch in two floors of an office tower at 127 East 58th Street, which opened in 1969.
8	67th Street Library		328 East 67th Street	Designed by the firm Babb, Cook, & Willard; and was constructed with funds provided by Andrew Carnegie; built to resemble the Yorkville Branch of the library; renovated in the 1950s, and then again in 2005
9	96th Street Library		112 East 96th Street	Designed by Babb, Cook, & Willard and opened in 1905; constructed with funds provided by Andrew Carnegie.[2]
10	Aguilar Library		174 East 110th Street	Originally named the Aguilar Free Library Society in 1896, for Grace Aguilar, a Sephardic Jewish author; merged with the NYPL in 1905 and moved into a new location that was built using Carnegie funds. The Library is known for its large collection of Spanish titles.[3]
11	Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library		40 West 20th Street
12	Battery Park City Library		175 North End Avenue	Designed by 1100 Architect in 2010.[4]
13	Bloomingdale Library		150 West 100th Street	Opened in 1898 as the Bloomingdale Branch of the New York Free Circulating Library; merged with the New York Public Library in 1901; rebuilt one block east in 1961.
14	Chatham Square Library		33 East Broadway	Opened in 1903 as a branch of the New York Free Circulating Library; rebuilt in 1911 with funds contributed by Andrew Carnegie; one of the busiest branches of the NYPL.
15	Columbus Library		742 10th Avenue	First opened in 1909 and was built using funds contributed by Andrew Carnegie; Columbus Library received major collections from the reading room of the Columbus Catholic club; operated on one floor from the 1970s until 2004, until more rooms were incorporated after a 2005 remodel.
16	Countee Cullen Library		104 West 136th Street	Opened on January 14, 1905, originally named The 135th Branch; built using funds contributed by Andrew Carnegie; original building is now part of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; named for the poet and teacher Countee Cullen, who plays a role in the Harlem Renaissance, in 1951.
17	Donnell Library Center		20 West 53rd Street	Opened in 1955, and closed in 2008; had a large reference and circulating collection.[5]
18	Epiphany Library		228 East 23rd Street
19	Fort Washington Library		535 West 179th Street
20	George Bruce Library		518 West 125th Street
21	Grand Central Library		135 East 46th Street
22	Hamilton Fish Park Library		415 East Houston Street
23	Hamiton Grange Library		503 West 145th Street
24	Harlem Library		9 West 124th Street
25	Hudson Park Library		66 Leroy Street
26	Inwood Library		4790 Broadway
27	Jefferson Market Library		425 Avenue of the Americas
28	Kips Bay Library		446 Third Avenue
29	Macomb's Bridge Library		2650 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard
30	Mid-Manhattan Library		455 Fifth Avenue
31	Morningside Heights Library		2900 Broadway
32	Muhlenberg Library		209 West 23rd Street
33	Mulberry Street Library		10 Jersey Street
34	New Amsterdam Library		9 Murray Street
35	Ottendorfer Library		135 Second Avenue
36	Riverside Library		127 Amsterdam Avenue
37	Roosevelt Island Library		524 Main Street	Opened In 1979 after being located in the Herman and Dorothy Reade apartment, then a community room, for three years.[6]
38	Seward Park Library		192 East Broadway	Originally a Brance of the Aguilar Free Library Society, and was initially built in 1886; the branch that stands today was built with Carnegie funds and opened in 1909.[7]
39	St. Agnes Library		444 Amsterdam Avenue
40	Terence Cardinal Cooke–Cathedral Library		560 Lexington Avenue
41	Tompkins Square Library		331 East 10th Street
42	Washington Heights Library		1000 St. Nicholas Avenue
43	Webster Library		1465 York Avenue	Originally part of the Webster Free Library, founded by the East Side House settlement in 1894; absorbed by the NYPL in 1904, and it was set for a new library to be built with funds from Andrew Carnegie's gift to the city.[8]
44	Yorkville Library		222 East 79th Street	Opened in 1902 as the first library built with Carnegie funds; designed by James Brown Lord.[9]

Libraries in the Bronx

	Library	Image	Address	Historical Note
45	Allerton Library		2740 Barnes Avenue	Opened in 1960, designed by Hertz and Salerni in conjunction with Department of Public Works.[10]
46	Baychester Library		2049 Asch Loop North	First opened in 1973, and remodeled in 2003.
47	Belmont Library and Enrico Fermi Cultural Center		610 East 186th Street
48	Bronx Library Center		310 East Kingsbridge Road
49	Castle Hill Library		947 Castle Hill Avenue
50	City Island Library		320 City Island Avenue
51	Clason's Point Library		1215 Morrison Avenue
52	Eastchester Library		1385 East Gun Hill Road
53	Edenwald Library		1255 East 233rd Street
54	Francis Martin Library		2150 University Avenue
55	Grand Concourse Library		155 East 173rd Street 40°50′38″N 73°54′36″W / 40.84389°N 73.91000°W
56	High Bridge Library		78 West 168th Street
57	Hunt's Point Library		877 Southern Boulevard
58	Jerome Park Library		118 Eames Place
59	Kingsbridge Library		291 West 231st Street
60	Melrose Library		910 Morris Avenue	Opened in 1914 as the first free circulating collection of books in the South Bronx using a portion of Andrew Carnegie's gift to the city; the building was designed by the Carrere and Hastings.[11]
61	Morris Park Library		985 Morris Park Avenue
62	Morrisania Library		610 East 169th Street
63	Mosholu Library		285 East 205th Street	Opened in 1954.[12]
64	Mott Haven Library		321 East 140th Street
65	Parkchester Library		1985 Westchester Avenue
66	Pelham Bay Library		3060 Middletown Road
67	Pelham Parkway–Van Nest Library		2147 Barnes Avenue	"The history of the branch goes back to 1912, when it was first established as a station of NYPL's Travelling Libraries program, bringing library books to neighborhoods that didn't yet have branches. The Van Nest sub-branch opened in 1917, and occupied a series of small, but progressively larger storefront locations around the neighborhood, until it moved to its current location in 1968."[13] After years of "clamoring"[14] and "an unprecedented amount of support" for the renaming of the branch, the Van Nest Library was renamed Pelham Parkway-Van Nest on August 27, 2014.[15]
68	Riverdale Library		5540 Mosholu Avenue
69	Sedgwick Library		1701 Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard
70	Soundview Library		660 Soundview Avenue
71	Spuyten Duyvil Library		650 West 235th Street
72	Throg's Neck Library		3025 Cross Bronx Expressway Extension
73	Tremont Library		1866 Washington Avenue
74	Van Cortlandt Library		3874 Sedgwick Avenue
75	Wakefield Library		4100 Lowerre Place
76	West Farms Library		2085 Honeywell Avenue
77	Westchester Square Library		2521 Glebe Avenue
78	Woodlawn Heights Library		4355 Katonah Avenue
79	Woodstock Library		761 East 160th Street	Temporarily closed

Libraries in Staten Island

	Library	Image	Address	Historical Note
80	Dongan Hills Library		1617 Richmond Road
81	Great Kills Library		56 Giffords Lane
82	Huguenot Park Library		830 Huguenot Avenue
83	Mariner's Harbor Library		206 South Avenue 40°38′5″N 74°9′59″W / 40.63472°N 74.16639°W
84	New Dorp Library		309 New Dorp Lane	First opened in 1907, then moved several times. In 1910, the branch moved to a real estate office owned by a local resident, in 1920 the community provided and maintained the library building, then in 1926, the library became part of the NYPL system. Finally, the branch moved to a store building, renamed the "James Watson Hughes Memorial Library," in 1928.[16]
85	Port Richmond Library		75 Bennett Street
86	Richmondtown Library		200 Clarke Avenue
87	South Beach Library		21-25 Robin Road
88	St. George Library Center		5 Central Avenue	Opened June 1907, designed by Carrère and Hastings and built using Carnegie funds.[17]
89	Stapleton Library		132 Canal Street
90	Todt Hill–Westerleigh Library		2550 Victory Boulevard
91	Tottenville Library		7430 Amboy Road
92	West New Brighton Library		976 Castleton Avenue

See also

• List of Carnegie libraries in New York City

References

1. "NYPL Locations". The New York Public Library. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
2. "67th Street Branch Records". The New York Public Library. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
3. "Aguilar Branch Records". The New York Public Library. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
4. "The New York Public Library, Battery Park City". 1100 Architect. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
5. "Donnell Library Center Records". The New York Public Library. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
6. "Timeline of Roosevelt Island History". NYC 10044. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
7. "Seward Park Branch Records". The New York Public Library. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
8. "Webster Branch Records". The New York Public Library. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
9. "Yorkville Branch Records". The New York Public Library. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
10. "Allerton Branch Records". The New York Public Library. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
11. "Melrose Branch Records". The New York Public Library. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
12. "Mosholu Branch Records". The New York Public Library. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
13. "About the Pelham Parkway-Van Nest Library". New York Public Library. Retrieved February 27, 2016.
14. Kochman, Ben (May 23, 2014). "Put it in the books! City to change Van Nest Library name". Retrieved February 25, 2016.
15. "The New York Public Library To Rename Beloved Bronx Branch the Pelham Parkway-Van Nest Library". New York Public Library. Retrieved February 27, 2016.
16. "New Dorp Branch Records". The New York Public Library. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
17. "St. George Branch Records". The New York Public Library. Retrieved June 5, 2015.

Further reading

• Dain, Phyllis. 2000. The New York Public Library: a universe of knowledge. New York: New York Public Library in association with Scala Publishers, London.
• Dierickx, Mary B. (1996). The Architecture of Literacy: The Carnegie Libraries of New York City. New York: Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and the New York City Dept. of General Services. ISBN 1-56256-717-9.

External links

• New York Public Library Visual Materials 1875-, Collection at the New York Public Library Archives & Manuscripts.
• 5 Design Concepts for New York's Branch Library of the Future, 2014