#Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

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Ghostbusters was released in the United States on June 8, 1984.  

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New York Public Library - Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

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The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building is part of The New York Public Library

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Sectional View of the New York Public Library - Stacks at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building [Published in a 1911 issue of Scientific American]

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I went to see the new Ghostbusters movie today and ...

... I just want to make a quick correction mentioned in the dialogue.

Minor Spoilers lie beneath --

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The two lion statues outside of the main branch of the New York Public Library (aka the Stephen A. Schwarzman building) are indeed named Patience and Fortitude.

However, when Winston was yelling at her at the police station, he said it was Fortitude that got destroyed. It was in fact Patience that got destroyed (which when you think about it, was apropos of the scene).

If you're facing the front entrance along 5th Avenue, it's Patience on the left and Fortitude on the right. An easy trick to remember this is Fortitude is the lion closest to 42nd St.

That is all.

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(New buildings have been found!)

NYPL = New York Public Library/Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

MADS = 550 Madison Avenue

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By Rob Beschizza

Boing Boing

May 28, 2023

A More Perfect Union, "Media that builds power for working people," released this video, narrated by Andrew Rivera, investigating the people and organizations behind the Super-PAC No Labels. Arizona Senator Kirsten Sinema is one of the primary recipients to benefit from these fundraising efforts. In December 2022, Sinema announced leaving the Democratic party to run as an Independent. No Labels, "a guilded cabal of dark money," appears to be her sugar-PAC even as polls indicate her bid would be a non-entity.

"A group calling themselves "No Labels" has suddenly emerged as a huge financial backer of Kyrsten Sinema. They're also floating the idea of running Joe Manchin for President. We dug into them and found a whole lot of billionaires with a history of opposing democracy."

No Labels is not a new organization. Founded in 2009, "No Labels has worked tirelessly to give a voice to America's commonsense majority. We've made a notable impact in Congress by creating the bipartisan House Problem Solvers Caucus and connecting them with an allied Senate group through regular bicameral meetings." Innocuous enough if you believe that elites have any other interest in mind except reproducing the conditions of their success and dominance.

According to Rivera, the money trail of No Labels runs from "Aspen to luxury resorts, jaunts to Europe, and undisclosed locations in Washington, D.C., to discover a deeper story of who is really behind No Labels and what is in it for them." The villainous characters involved include owners of the private equity firms like Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone, Louis Bacon of Moore Capital Management, Trump backer Nelson Peltz of Trian Partners, and James Rupert Murdoch, heir to the FOX fortune. Other No Labels contributors include the Consumer Technology Association, Chambers of Commerce, Nazi-memorabilia hoarder Harlon Crow, and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's GOP sugar daddy.

When Sinema was first elected to Congress in 2012, she was available to constituents at open town hall-type meetings. Now, it seems the entry fee to talk to this elected public official is in the millions as she has broken up with the constituencies that put her in office in the first place.

"If Sinema plays spoiler for Democrats, handing the race and maybe the Senate to Republicans, it would guarantee that their tax breaks continue. Considering their net worth, cutting some checks to Kirsten Sinema is probably the safest bet in D.C."

The remainder of the video explores Sinema's recent voting record and how it dovetails with the interest of billionaires and their ilk, i.e., people who aspire to be wealthy. That is the rub of capitalism: you do not have to be rich to believe in and support policies and ideologies that reinforce the class position of elites, a desire groomed by the bootstrap narrative of meritocratic order and effort – you know, the Little Engine that Could – trickle down on others.

CA Knowledge recently reported Senator Sinema's worth is $11 million, while Newsweek has debunked that claim. Power is not only money. According to the New York Times, Sinema is a party of one.

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A Degenerate Assemblage

Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America 

by Anthony Grafton

New York​ was a great book town in the 1960s. You could buy new books in English at the elegant Scribner shop on Fifth Avenue, new books in French at the Librairie de France or Rizzoli, and old books in German at Mary S. Rosenberg’s austere, packed shop on Broadway, where neither I nor another obsessive friend could afford $100 for a first edition of Winckelmann’s history of ancient art. You could pick up New Directions poets in the Village, Hebrew seforim in Brooklyn and German magazines in Yorkville. If you wanted rarities, you could browse the dusty, chaotic secondhand bookshops on Fourth Avenue and Broadway. At the dustiest and wildest of them all, Dauber and Pine on Fifth, one of the owners sold me a 17th-century Latin book on Druids that I couldn’t afford at half-price (‘rainy day special’, he explained). Higher-end bookshops offered incunabula and Aldines, first editions of Gibbon and Austen to discriminating buyers who had real money.

If you didn’t, you could explore the riches available in public collections. New York Public Library branches were stuffed with new fiction and old treasures, which anyone could borrow or read. Anyone over eighteen could explore the marble labyrinths of what is now called the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building: a palace of the people on 42nd Street, traditionally known as the Main or Central Branch, with its encyclopedic holdings. In the reading room, battered but still grand, readers waited for their number to appear on the indicator – the library ran on steampunk systems, which supposedly included ‘pages’ on roller skates traversing the stacks at high speed. There I inched, pen in hand, through the huge folio volumes, bound in buckram, of the 18th-century edition of Erasmus’s complete works. An untidy man who studied the racing form with equal care sat at the same varnished table, warmed by the same fading beams of the pale city sun. When my father felt depressed, he would visit the print room and look at a Dürer. The Morgan Library, the New York Academy of Medicine and Columbia’s rare book collections served those with more specialised needs.

New York couldn’t compete with London or Paris: it had no bouquinistes, no Farringdon Road, no British Library or Bibliothèque nationale de France. It lacked the quaint bookshops of Boston, where the staff seemed to know not only the books they sold but their 18th and 19th-century authors, not to mention Harvard’s Widener Library. But it was still a city of books, collectors and readers. Every good secondhand bookshop offered guidance for neophytes: A. Edward Newton’s chatty books about his bookish adventures; Holbrook Jackson’s erudite Anatomy of Bibliomania, a comprehensive treatment of obsessive book-buying in the manner of Robert Burton; and sometimes even a copy of Carter and Pollard’s Inquiry into the Nature of Certain 19th-Century Pamphlets, the exposé that dished Thomas J. Wise, forger of rare editions. It all seemed to contradict the rants of intellectuals about the barrenness of American culture. Many of the angelheaded hipsters whom I met busied themselves in learning Old Church Slavonic or translating Rimbaud. Meanwhile, pioneering scholars like Barbara Tuchman, Frank Manuel and George Whalley mined gold year after year from the lodes of ore in the libraries.

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New York Public Library to Issue Special Spider-Man Library Card 

Spider-Senses will be tingling across New York City as The New York Public Library (NYPL) and Marvel Entertainment join forces to release a special, limited-edition Spider-Man library card on October 11,2022 to inspire new and existing patrons to explore a multitude of free books, resources, and programs at the Library, including Marvel graphic novels. This dynamic collaboration—which debuts just in time for New York Comic Con—marks the 60th anniversary of Spider-Man’s first comic book appearance in Amazing Fantasy #15 and emphasizes the importance of reading, knowledge, and libraries to Peter Parker’s crime-fighting comic book adventures. 

Images of Spider-Man—alongside Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy, two other iconic web-slingers—will be featured on the card, as well as on upcoming banners outside the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building and the windows of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL), exciting patrons of all ages to tap into the unique power of reading, comics, and libraries to discover their inner super hero. Details about the card and related activities are available online.

The Spider-Man card follows in the footsteps of previous library cards issued for the beloved children’s book The Snowy Day and the Library’s “Knowledge Is Power” card; aiming to help New Yorkers discover their full potential by tapping into the power of everything NYPL has to offer—millions of books to help readers scale new heights, a web of information via free computers and internet access, and a super-team of library staff—all available at your friendly neighborhood library.

The release of the Spider-Man card also marks the one-year anniversary of the Library’s decision to eliminate fines as a way to remove barriers to accessing the Library for all New Yorkers. This historic move was even a plot point in Marvel Comics’ Amazing Spider-Man #900, released on July 27. In a special story written by Daniel Kibblesmith, drawn by David Lopez, and colored by Nathan Fairbairn, Peter Parker returns a large stack of overdue books to the Library after learning of the elimination of late fines. Readers can check out Amazing Spider-Man #900 in a special bonus release on Marvel Unlimited, Marvel’s premier digital comics subscription service.

The launch of the special-edition card also marks the start of the Library’s Open House week, which begins October 11. The card will be available to new and current patrons free on a first-come, first-serve basis at all NYPL branches, located throughout the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island. Libraries will be hosting a variety of programs and events throughout the week, as well as featuring book displays and reading recommendations from a special reading list curated by NYPL staff.

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He gave 3 million to trump.

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Great Britain and the Netherlands signed the Treaty of Westminster on February 19, 1674, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, and it is renamed New York.

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Libraries on Film: Network (1976)

I’ve seen this film half a dozen times, but it was only during my latest viewing that I recognized our Stephen A Schwarzman Building as one of the filming locations!

P.S. - Check out this list of more examples of movies & TV that used NYPL as a filming location!

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New York City in Minecraft

Fun facts about New York City (NYC to you and me)

1. It has a subway system, and the trains are pretty neat.

2. New York has more people than any other city in the U.S. and over twice as many as London.

3. The Empire State Building is one of the world's tallest buildings, but it is not the tallest building in the U.S. because it does not have a spire.

4. The Statue of Liberty has a bald head because she lost her wig in a storm in 1858.

5. The subway has a map that shows where every station is located on the line.

6. A 'bagel' is actually a round bread, not a bread with a hole in it.

7. The Brooklyn Bridge was built in the late 19th century to help cars, not people.

8. The New York Public Library has two buildings: the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (for books) and the Rose Reading Room (for people).

9. New York has over 25,000 taxis.

10. New York has at least 12 bridges across its five major waterways.

11. New York's Chinatown is the largest Chinatown outside of Asia.

A short little Minecraft story about New York City

Steve and Alex traveled to New York City to celebrate the New Year.

They had been on a few dates and were getting along great. Alex had been dating Steve for nearly two months now. The night before they were leaving for the trip, they went to dinner together at a nice restaurant. They both enjoyed themselves and drank a lot of wine. When they got back to Steve's apartment, he asked Alex if she wanted to continue their evening. He invited her in for some champagne and to watch a movie.

Alex was really enjoying herself and had a blast with Steve. They watched an old classic that Steve had rented, Casablanca. They both enjoyed the movie and it helped them get to know each other better. As the movie ended, Alex realized that it was late and it was time for her to go.

"Thanks for a great night," she said as they hugged.

"I'm glad you came over."

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The exterior of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (or, the Main Branch of the New York Public Library) in Sidney Lumet’s The Wiz (1978).

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movies be like. the stephen a. schwarzman building is where new yorkers go to read

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NYPL - Stephen A. Schwarzman Building