Inside The New York Public Library: The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
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- Discover the story behind one of New York City's most iconic buildings, the New York Public Library's Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Located at 42nd St and 5th Avenue, the landmark building is the center point of the NYPL system which includes 88 neighborhood branches and four scholarly research centers across the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island.
The non-circulating graduate-level collections were initially formed from the consolidation of the Astor and Lenox Libraries, and have evolved into one of the world's preeminent public resources for the study of human thought, action, and experience -- from anthropology and archaeology, to religion, sports, world history, and literature.
Learn more at nypl.org
In the mid-80's I worked at the library. I sat in a very large room on the first floor overlooking 42nd Street which housed the Geological Surveys Collection. But primarily they had me typing up book reviews for their newsletter at the time. There was a woman working there, she must have been in her 80's or 90's - she was actually retired from the library and getting her pension.. but she hated sitting at home so came to the library every day. I remember her telling me about the composer Bela Bartok - how he loved the library and how she was one of his very small circle of friends during the years of WW2. As someone who plays piano and learned Bartok's Sonatina at a young age.. this was all very magical to me.. and I still have very fond memories of working at NYPL.
What a beautiful experience!!!!!.
I am writing a scene in my novel that takes place at the NYPL, and I would need to know how things look between the Astor Hall and the Map Room (and what can one see standing just outside the Map Room), so if you have a little spare time, I would love a brief description. I found your email on your TH-cam channel and I shall send you a message there too. I hope that you don't mind! With profuse gratitude, warmly, Mahayana
I wish i could go there, to put some flowers to Ash Lynx, omg i'm gonna cry again....
Btw he in seat 378 I'm gonna go there and put flowers on his seat :')
@@hey_rae2080 oh, good one :)
I used to work there when I was 17 in the summer of 1987. My first job and I loved it.
I envy you. What a marvelous experience.
As a book lover, this is my dream library to visit.
Hope you are able to come to NYC soon♥️
I love libraries too, and I absolutely cringe when I hear people saying that they should be replaced by Google. I always refer them to the book "How to Find Out Anything" by Don MacLeod. Even reading the first 2 chapters will inform someone how dumb an idea like that really is.
Anyway, I've been to the main NYPL building two times but, unfortunately, I didn't have a lot of time to spend there because I was with other people. I truly hope you get to visit there someday, and also the Library of Congress--if you haven't been there yet. It is breathtaking.
Same here
me too! 🙂
This is best library I've ever been to. I'm going here today as well
Thank you for adding captions for your deaf and hard of hearing viewers! Your library is exquisite, and your work there is a blessing to all!
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I visited in April 2024. What a beautiful place. Unfortunately there are so many visitors that you can hardly hear yourself think.
Marvellous, thank you. I am writing a scene in my book where the characters are in this majestic building, and sincerely hope to have the chance to visit it one day!
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U did this for what bruh💔
I really LOVE this place !
Superb video and lovely voice over. I wonder why the Vanderbilts and the Morgans were not benefactors?
Anyone here for banana fish?
NOW UR THE ULTIMATE COMENT😭
Yep
Hello🤠
The video information on our magnificent NYPL Main Branch may be wrong, but the Schwartzman Main Branch remains in all its splendour as presented, a treasure for all of us to enjoy. Thank you, NYPL, guardians of this city treasure.
❤ I like that area
what's a nice place! i should go there someday...
Thank you for sharing your vedio.vrry nice
Thank you ) was interesting )
I was there but dudt have enough time to go inside it was a short trip for my 40 birthday maybe next time ❤
Sayonara 🍌🐟
Amazing...really amazing
beautiful...
So fasinating
POV:ghostbusters
The film score was extremely beautiful but no credit was given. May I ask who composed the score?
I've Shazamed the music. I've found the this. Faces in the Haze, The American Dollar. On the Album, Awake in the city. Hope this helps.
As a child A) I asked if I could return a book on Staten Island [knowing perfectly well that I could] and the librarian got all flustered. She went away, asked another (or others) and came back stammering, "Err, ...I think so." B) The second thing I did on the same trip was to get lost. To this day, 65 or more years later, I'm still a reader and am almost staff at my local library. TV? Not interested. Give me a book.
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Who was Regina Andrews?
Regina Andrews (nee Anderson) was born in Chicago, 1901, of Native American, Jewish, East Indian, Swedish and African descent - she had one grandparent who was a Confederate general, another was African born in Madagascar. She studied at Wilberforce University and Columbia University. In 1923, she visited New York City on vacation and that was it - she fell in love with the Big Apple and never moved back to Chicago.
Andrews applied for work at the NYPL and, according to Whitmire, “she had expected to encounter no resistance from the library administration since New York City was supposedly at least as cosmopolitan as Chicago, if not more so. Actually, though fewer African Americans lived in Chicago than New York City, the Chicago library hired more of them to work in its libraries.”
When Andrews was asked about her race on the library application, she simply wrote, “I’m American.” When the topic arose again during a follow-up interview with the library a few days later, she was told “You’re not an American. You’re not white.”
This beautiful piece of architecture that's stood for more than a century, and all people care about is some anime
Anyone else came here For Ghostbusters reason?
I did. in fact, I’m watching the beginning of this exact scene as of this comment. 😂
Sayonara ash...
AAAHHHH STOP
*sobs*
Oh my god
Bonjour, étant intéressé pour transmettre/diffuser (ma compréhension/lecture/orale/page(s) texte(s) de vos travaux) sur ma/mes deux/chaîne(s); je vous sollicite, et demande cette possibilité, ainsi que la problématique des droits d'auteur.
Bien cordialement.
Abd Allah Gaston
So why is the Library called the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building.
Steven Torrey Because schwarzman donated 100 million back in 2008.
If he was a good person he never would have accepted having his name on that building. His donation was only to renovate the place not to build it from scratch. A freaking disgrace to place his name above all who actually paid to build that thing. Who was responsible to do this ?
So if they were watching it go up where are the pics ? Not pics that show the final stage with a bunch of scaffolding but pics showing it being constructed ?Actually would like to see pics of any buildings that went up in TB is time frame ? If they are in every state and cameras were available where are the pics ?
Nu Yoik Rulz!
Right now this great building has been emptied of the majority of the NYPL collection and the Rose Reading Room is closed. The information provided by the video is wrong. Astor and Lenox were long dead when the NYPL was founded, it was the work of others, even the more recently deceased Tilden had other plans. The information about the architectural competition is inaccurate. Carrere & Hastings did not enter the open competition (first stage) and many of those who did were less experienced than they were. The winning architects were selected in a second competition that included first stage winners and prominent architects invited and paid to enter the second stage (including Carrere & Hastings). The famous lions were not part of the competition submission and did not clinch the deal. It is a disappointment, but not a surprise that NYPL, has produced this gloss on its own history. After all, it took the work of the Committee to Save NYPL to stop the irresponsible destruction of the book stacks at the building's center. Please ask NYPL to pay attention to the building and the books in its care.
I haven't checked all of your comments, but did look up a few, because it saddened me to think that this lovely video might be falsehood.
Re John Jacob Astor - the original one, who did indeed die long before the library was founded (not the IVth, who died in 1912 on the Titanic), "Astor bequeathed $400,000 to build the Astor Library for the New York public (later consolidated with other libraries to form New York Public Library)," (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jacob_Astor)
Here's some info on Tilden and his ties to the library (posthumously as well) "...governor Samuel J. Tilden (1814-1886), who upon his death bequeathed the bulk of his fortune - about $2.4 million - to "establish and maintain a free library and reading room in the city of New York." (www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/history) And "On 23 May 1895, the Lenox Library was consolidated with the Astor Library and the Tilden Trust to form the New York Public Library." (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lenox)
And re Samuel Jones Tilden "Of his fortune, estimated at $7 million (over $176 million in 2014), $4 million (over $100 million in 2014) was bequeathed for the establishment and maintenance of a free public library and reading-room in the City of New York; but, as the will was successfully contested by relatives, only about $3 million (over $75 million in 2014) was applied to its original purpose. In 1895, the Tilden Trust was combined with the Astor and Lenox libraries to found the New York Public Library, whose building bears his name on its front." (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_J._Tilden)
Joy Hecht The video says, referring to Astor, Lenox, and Tilden: "These men made it happen." They were dead when their trusts were consolidated and NYPL founded, so the statement is false.
Sounds like their money made it happen. Let's face it, without their funds, there might not be a wonderful establishment such as this. I have visited the NYPL and it was a wonderful experience.
@@MSBRENDAJ Yes, their money definitely made it happen…
*A hellova lot of their money!*
Just like every other building they pretend to have built, no electrify and horse and buggy at the time. Why do people believe this garbage.
F Ash
The Cowardly Lion from THE WIZ
I think you need a College Degree to work at a Public Library.
I'm watching from Great Britain Or People Call It England
England is part of Great Britain just like Scotland.
GHOSTBUSTERS!!!!
This is bogus.Construction this good couldn't of existed at that time,let alone man power in the time it took to finish.
you’re ret@rd3d