All these New York City Public Library pictures were taken at the Main Library Branch at 5th ave. and 42nd St. NYC. this building opened on May 23, 1911.
The New York City Public Library System has over 53 million items and is the second largest library in the country, only the Library of Congress in Washington, DC is larger.
It is one of the world's leading libraries, it is famed for its possession of a Gutenberg Bible and a Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.