![]() ![]() You can take the tour in any order you like. Schwarzman Building, as well as the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, NYPL’s largest lending library, located diagonally across Fifth Avenue at 40th Street. ![]() This audio tour will be your guide as you explore the Stephen A. They put the millions of books, manuscripts, audio recordings, moving images, works of art, and many more historic and significant items to use every day. Writers, scholars, artists, creators-anyone with a desire and curiosity-come here from around the world. It is also one of its premier research centers-a collector and preserver… but most importantly a provider… of a deep trove of knowledge. ![]() Schwarzman Building-the grand marble building on Fifth Avenue with the lion statues out front-is the flagship of the New York Public Library system. ![]() The Library is more than a single place-it’s a vast network spanning the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island. Since its founding in 1895, The New York Public Library has stood as a beacon of knowledge and a gateway to opportunity, for all. As a journalist, writer, and longtime card-carrying member of the Library… I couldn’t agree more. Those are the words of one of American literature’s most renowned authors, and lifelong friend of The New York Public Library, Toni Morrison. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission.” We hope you enjoy this tour.Īlison Stewart: “Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Interpretive commentary follows each description. This tour provides verbal descriptions of key visuals for the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street is a three-story white marble building with columns, arches, and statues composing its stately exterior.ĭiagonally across the street at 40th Street and Fifth Avenue, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, or SNFL, makes its home in a seven-story former department store building with a stone exterior and unique metal rooftop. Narrator: Welcome to the audio descriptive tour for the New York Public Library. ![]()
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