New York Public Library - Hudson Park Branch

Location & Contact:

66 Leroy St
New York, New York 10014
212-243-6876
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Description:

Libraries are the memory of humankind, irreplaceable repositories of documents of human thought and action. The New York Public Library is such a memory bank par excellence, one of the great knowledge institutions of the world, its myriad collections ranking with those of the British Library, the Library of Congress, and the Bibliothque nationale de France. Virtually all of the Library's many collections and services are freely available to all comers. In fact, the Library has but one criterion for admission: curiosity.

The combination of scholarly research collections and a network of community libraries lends to the Library an extraordinary richness. It is special also in being historically a privately managed, nonprofit corporation with a public mission, operating with both private and public financing in a century-old, still evolving private-public partnership. The research collections (for reference only, they are located in four major centers for research) are similar to the holdings of the great national and university libraries, and the community circulating libraries (located in neighborhoods throughout the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island) resemble classic American municipal libraries.

Hours:

Monday: 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday: 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Wednesday: 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Thursday: 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Friday: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sunday: CLOSED

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