#New York Public Library

[countesspetofi]

I've never seen Bryant Park empty before, so I didn't realize how big it is. It's always been half-full of temporary structures for some event or other every time I've been there.

1924 Bryant Park and the New York Public Library. From New York City-Vintage History, FB.

[thebrainofmae]

My last post on this didn’t get a ton of traction so I’m trying again. The latest budget proposal for NYC includes a $58.3 million cut to public libraries.

Previous cuts forced NYC public libraries to close on Sundays, and this further round of cuts would likely force libraries to end weekend service entirely. Additionally, it would mean further cuts to programming and the indefinite delay of reopening libraries that have been closed for renovation, which would leave entire neighborhoods without a library.

There is a preliminary budget hearing on May 21, and until then libraries are asking people to sign a letter here to urge the mayor’s office and city council to reverse the cuts.

I know things are terrible in a lot of ways right now and people probably feel overwhelmed and burnt out, but signing this letter (or reblogging this post) is a small, quick, concrete way to make a difference.

[nimuetheseawitch]

The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

The wave hits the library

[lionofchaeronea]

Illustration by William Heath Robinson of Thumbelina, facing page 64 of Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, London: Constable, 1913. Now in the New York Public Library.

[djkerr]

George, Anthony, and Noah (2025/1996)

📷 Emilio Madrid, Steve Granitz/Wireimage via Getty

Julianna, George, Anthony, and Noah (April 3, 2025)

📷 Emilio Madrid

[garadinervi]

Jacquelyn Strycker, Arrival, (collage of risograph prints on handmade Japanese paper and sewing), 2023 [© Jacquelyn Strycker]

Group Exhibition: Line & Thread: Prints and Textiles from the 1600s to the Present, Curated by Madeleine Viljoen (Curator of Prints and the Spencer Collection), The New York Public Library, New York, NY, September 7, 2024 – January 12, 2025

[ash-elizabeth-art]

New York Public Library, Part 6

[authorkarajorgensen]

Want to see a cool research thing? It's a collection of digitized menus from the 1800/1900s at the New York Public Library.

Perfect for my historical fiction peeps or culinary historians

[railwayhistorical]

The Chrysler Building The classic building was seen from the northwest corner of the New York Public Library (looking eastward along 42nd Street). Another landmark, Grand Central Station, lies between where I was standing and the Chrysler—in my mind, this is the center of the universe.

One photograph by Richard Koenig; taken in the autumn of 1981.

[trenchandwhite]

[thinkingimages]

@claudiopogo and @wysocka.magdalena take-over @archivalzone with their project @the_stacks

stacks were shot over a couple of visits at the New York Public Library's Picture Collection @nyplpicturecollection

About the Picture Collection:

"Since its creation in 1915 as a resource for artists, Illustrators, designers, teachers, students, and general researchers, The New York Public Library's Picture Collection provides 1.5 million circulating images clipped from books and magazines across 12,000 subject headings, from clothing and dress to military battles to insects. The collection also features extensive holdings of prints, photographs, vintage postcards, and greeting cards, and around 150,000 non-circulating reference images from the early 1900s and prior. The Library has digitized 45,000 of these historic items as part of its online Digital Collections.

The Picture Collection's unique arrangement of items into subject headings makes it useful to researchers in many creative fields, including artists; documentary filmmakers; set, prop, and costume makers for stage and film; graphic novel writers; and fashion designers. The collection has provided inspiration and insight to some of the most well-known and influential visual artists in the world-including Diego Rivera, Andy Warhol, and Taryn Simon-and it continues to serve the needs of the creative community to this day." (Quoted from the Library's Website)

The project is a work in progress and intended to become a photobook published by @outerspacepress in the near future.

We hope you'll enjoy browsing this amazing archive of photography with us in the upcoming few days.

[blondebrainpowered]

A lock of Beethoven's hair mounted in a jewel-encrusted case with a glass covering, 1827.

Music Division, New York Public Library

[reverescents]

No other series has ever affected me like Banana Fish has. I still remember the beginning of the series, when I first started it. It wasn't even that long ago and it feels like time passes so fast..I feel a bit like a fool for caring about fiction so much and being so deeply impacted by it. I don't think I know anyone else who is as deeply impacted by fiction as I am. For me, fiction just feels like so much more than fiction. It isn't just something fake to me. It's as if, my brain knows that it's not real no matter how sad it is, that it's just a series, or if it's an anime that it's literally animated characters and stories, but that doesn't do anything.. it's still so painful. No one knows how painful that story (Banana Fish) is and how deeply it's touched my soul.. It hurts and aches when I think about that anime and Ash & Eiji and the story, it hurts and aches when I can grasp just how painful it is, and remember certain details. I feel like no one understands. Banana Fish doesn't just feel like some animated story to me. To be honest, I hate mentioning this at all. I have over 200 hundred edits in my gallery. When I spend time thinking about BF, and I remember and grasp how sad and heart breaking and gut wrenching it is, it's just so overwhelming, like I can't put it into words. It brings so much pain and such sadness that it's beyond words.

[lionofchaeronea]

Boxing Day for Dancers, 1850 (New York Public Library, Jerome Robbins Dance Division)

[garadinervi]

Raffaella della Olga, T20, (typewritten on tracing paper and gold leaf, with carbon paper and ink ribbon, cm 21 × 29,7), 2019, Unique [© Raffaella della Olga]

Group Exhibition: Line & Thread: Prints and Textiles from the 1600s to the Present, Curated by Madeleine Viljoen (Curator of Prints and the Spencer Collection), The New York Public Library, New York, NY, September 7, 2024 – January 12, 2025

[ash-elizabeth-art]

New York Public Library, Part 2