List of New York Public Library branches

The New York Public Library system includes libraries in Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island. This page is organized by borough, and alphabetically.

The boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens are supported by their own separate library systems.

Research libraries

	Library	Image	Address	Historical Note
1	Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (Main Branch) [1]		Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street
2	Library for the Performing Arts (Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center) [2]		40 Lincoln Center Plaza
3	Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture [3]		515 Malcolm X Boulevard	Designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened in 1905.
4	Science, Industry and Business Library [4]		188 Madison Avenue

Libraries in Manhattan

	Library	Image	Address	Historical Note
5	115th Street Library [5]		203 West 115th Street	Designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened in 1907
6	125th Street Library [6]		224 East 125th Street	Designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened in 1904.
7	58th Street Library [7]		127 East 58th Street	Originally designed by Carrère & Hastings and opened May 10, 1907. The original building was demolished and replaced by a new branch in two floors of an office tower at 127 East 58th Street, which opened in 1969.
8	67th Street Library [8]		328 East 67th Street	Designed by the firm Babb, Cook, & Willard; and was constructed with funds provided by Andrew Carnegie; built to resemble the Yorkville Branch of the library; renovated in the 1950s, and then again in 2005
9	96th Street Library [9]		112 East 96th Street	Designed by Babb, Cook, & Willard and opened in 1905; constructed with funds provided by Andrew Carnegie.
10	Aguilar Library [10]		174 East 110th Street	Originally named the Aguilar Free Library Society in 1896, for Grace Aguilar, a Sephardic Jewish author; merged with the NYPL in 1905 and moved into a new location that was built using Carnegie funds. The Library is known for its large collection of Spanish titles.
11	Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library [11]		40 West 20th Street
12	Battery Park City Library [12]		175 North End Avenue	Designed by 1100 Architect in 2010.
13	Bloomingdale Library [13]		150 West 100th Street	Opened in 1898 as the Bloomingdale Branch of the New York Free Circulating Library; merged with the New York Public Library in 1901; rebuilt one block east in 1961.
14	Chatham Square Library [14]		33 East Broadway	Opened in 1903 as a branch of the New York Free Circulating Library; rebuilt in 1911 with funds contributed by Andrew Carnegie; one of the busiest branches of the NYPL.
15	Columbus Library [15]		742 10th Avenue	First opened in 1909 and was built using funds contributed by Andrew Carnegie; Columbus Library received major collections from the reading room of the Columbus Catholic club; operated on one floor from the 1970s until 2004, until more rooms were incorporated after a 2005 remodel.
16	Countee Cullen Library [16]		104 West 136th Street	Opened on January 14, 1905, originally named The 135th Branch; built using funds contributed by Andrew Carnegie; original building is now part of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; named for the poet and teacher Countee Cullen, who plays a role in the Harlem Renaissance, in 1951.
17	Donnell Library Center [17]		20 West 53rd Street	Opened in 1955, and closed in 2008; had a large reference and circulating collection.
18	Epiphany Library [18]		228 East 23rd Street
19	Fort Washington Library [19]		535 West 179th Street
20	George Bruce Library [20]		518 West 125th Street
21	Grand Central Library [21]		135 East 46th Street
22	Hamilton Fish Park Library [22]		415 East Houston Street
23	Hamiton Grange Library [23]		503 West 145th Street
24	Harlem Library [24]		9 West 124th Street
25	Hudson Park Library [25]		66 Leroy Street
26	Inwood Library [26]		4790 Broadway
27	Jefferson Market Library [27]		425 Avenue of the Americas
28	Kips Bay Library [28]		446 Third Avenue
29	Macomb's Bridge Library [29]		2650 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard
30	Mid-Manhattan Library [30]		455 Fifth Avenue
31	Morningside Heights Library [31]		2900 Broadway
32	Muhlenberg Library [32]		209 West 23rd Street
33	Mulberry Street Library [33]		10 Jersey Street
34	New Amsterdam Library [34]		9 Murray Street
35	Ottendorfer Library [35]		135 Second Avenue
36	Riverside Library [36]		127 Amsterdam Avenue
37	Roosevelt Island Library [37]		524 Main Street	Opened In 1979 after being located in the Herman and Dorothy Reade apartment, then a community room, for three years.
38	Seward Park Library [38]		192 East Broadway	Originally a Brance of the Aguilar Free Library Society, and was initially built in 1886; the branch that stands today was built with Carnegie funds and opened in 1909.
39	St. Agnes Library [39]		444 Amsterdam Avenue
40	Terence Cardinal Cooke–Cathedral Library [40]		560 Lexington Avenue
41	Tompkins Square Library [41]		331 East 10th Street
42	Washington Heights Library [42]		1000 St. Nicholas Avenue
43	Webster Library [43]		1465 York Avenue	Originally part of the Webster Free Library, founded by the East Side House settlement in 1894; absorbed by the NYPL in 1904, and it was set for a new library to be built with funds from Andrew Carnegie's gift to the city.
44	Yorkville Library [44]		222 East 79th Street	Opened in 1902 as the first library built with Carnegie funds; designed by James Brown Lord.

Libraries in the Bronx

	Library	Image	Address	Historical Note
45	Allerton Library [45]		2740 Barnes Avenue	Opened in 1960, designed by Hertz and Salerni in conjunction with Department of Public Works.
46	Baychester Library [46]		2049 Asch Loop North	First opened in 1973, and remodeled in 2003.
47	Belmont Library and Enrico Fermi Cultural Center [47]		610 East 186th Street
48	Bronx Library Center [48]		310 East Kingsbridge Road
49	Castle Hill Library [49]		947 Castle Hill Avenue
50	City Island Library [50]		320 City Island Avenue
51	Clason's Point Library [51]		1215 Morrison Avenue
52	Eastchester Library [52]		1385 East Gun Hill Road
53	Edenwald Library [53]		1255 East 233rd Street
54	Francis Martin Library [54]		2150 University Avenue
55	Grand Concourse Library [55]		155 East 173rd Street 40°50′38″N 73°54′36″W
56	High Bridge Library [56]		78 West 168th Street
57	Hunt's Point Library [57]		877 Southern Boulevard
58	Jerome Park Library [58]		118 Eames Place
59	Kingsbridge Library [59]		291 West 231st Street
60	Melrose Library [60]		910 Morris Avenue	Opened in 1914 as the first free circulating collection of books in the South Bronx using a portion of Andrew Carnegie's gift to the city; the building was designed by the Carrere and Hastings.
61	Morris Park Library [61]		985 Morris Park Avenue
62	Morrisania Library [62]		610 East 169th Street
63	Mosholu Library [63]		285 East 205th Street	Opened in 1954.
64	Mott Haven Library [64]		321 East 140th Street
65	Parkchester Library [65]		1985 Westchester Avenue
66	Pelham Bay Library [66]		3060 Middletown Road
67	Pelham Parkway–Van Nest Library [67]		2147 Barnes Avenue	"The history of the branch goes back to 1912, when it was first established as a station of NYPL's Travelling Libraries program, bringing library books to neighborhoods that didn't yet have branches. The Van Nest sub-branch opened in 1917, and occupied a series of small, but progressively larger storefront locations around the neighborhood, until it moved to its current location in 1968." After years of "clamoring" and "an unprecedented amount of support" for the renaming of the branch, the Van Nest Library was renamed Pelham Parkway-Van Nest on August 27, 2014.
68	Riverdale Library [68]		5540 Mosholu Avenue
69	Sedgwick Library [69]		1701 Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard
70	Soundview Library [70]		660 Soundview Avenue
71	Spuyten Duyvil Library [71]		650 West 235th Street
72	Throg's Neck Library [72]		3025 Cross Bronx Expressway Extension
73	Tremont Library [73]		1866 Washington Avenue
74	Van Cortlandt Library [74]		3874 Sedgwick Avenue
75	Wakefield Library [75]		4100 Lowerre Place
76	West Farms Library [76]		2085 Honeywell Avenue
77	Westchester Square Library [77]		2521 Glebe Avenue
78	Woodlawn Heights Library [78]		4355 Katonah Avenue
79	Woodstock Library [79]		761 East 160th Street	Temporarily closed

Libraries in Staten Island

	Library	Image	Address	Historical Note
80	Dongan Hills Library [80]		1617 Richmond Road
81	Great Kills Library [81]		56 Giffords Lane
82	Huguenot Park Library [82]		830 Huguenot Avenue
83	Mariner's Harbor Library [83]		206 South Avenue 40°38′5″N 74°9′59″W
84	New Dorp Library [84]		309 New Dorp Lane	First opened in 1907, then moved several times. In 1910, the branch moved to a real estate office owned by a local resident, in 1920 the community provided and maintained the library building, then in 1926, the library became part of the NYPL system. Finally, the branch moved to a store building, renamed the "James Watson Hughes Memorial Library," in 1928.
85	Port Richmond Library [85]		75 Bennett Street
86	Richmondtown Library [86]		200 Clarke Avenue
87	South Beach Library [87]		21-25 Robin Road
88	St. George Library Center [88]		5 Central Avenue	Opened June 1907, designed by Carrère and Hastings and built using Carnegie funds.
89	Stapleton Library [89]		132 Canal Street
90	Todt Hill–Westerleigh Library [90]		2550 Victory Boulevard
91	Tottenville Library [91]		7430 Amboy Road
92	West New Brighton Library [92]		976 Castleton Avenue

See also

• List of Carnegie libraries in New York City

Further reading

• Dain, Phyllis. 2000. The New York Public Library: a universe of knowledge. New York: New York Public Library in association with Scala Publishers, London.
• Dierickx, Mary B. (1996). The Architecture of Literacy: The Carnegie Libraries of New York City. New York: Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and the New York City Dept. of General Services. ISBN 1-56256-717-9.

External links

• New York Public Library Visual Materials 1875-, Collection at the New York Public Library Archives & Manuscripts.
• 5 Design Concepts for New York's Branch Library of the Future, 2014