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	Built after the New York Public Library was formed as a combination of two libraries in the late 1890s. The architectural firm Carrère and Hastings constructed the structure in the Beaux-Arts style, and the structure opened on May 23, 1911. The building was declared a National Historic Landmark, a National Register of Historic Places site, and a New York City designated landmark.
2	Library for the Performing Arts (Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center) [2]		40 Lincoln Center Plaza	Opened in 1965, it houses one of the world's largest collections of materials relating to the performing arts.
3	Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture [3]		515 Malcolm X Boulevard	Designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened in 1905.

Libraries in Manhattan

	Library	Image	Address	Historical Note
5	53rd Street Library		18 West 53rd Street	The 53rd Street branch opened on June 27, 2016.
6	115th Street Library [4]		203 West 115th Street	Designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened in 1907
7	125th Street Library [5]		224 East 125th Street	Designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened in 1904.
8	58th Street Library [6]		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.
9	67th Street Library [7]		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
10	96th Street Library [8]		112 East 96th Street	Designed by Babb, Cook, & Willard and opened in 1905; constructed with funds provided by Andrew Carnegie.
11	Aguilar Library [9]		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.
12	Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library [10]		40 West 20th Street
13	Battery Park City Library [11]		175 North End Avenue	Designed by 1100 Architect in 2010.
14	Bloomingdale Library [12]		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.
15	Chatham Square Library [13]		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.
16	Columbus Library [14]		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.
17	Countee Cullen Library [15]		104 West 136th Street	Opened on January 14, 1905, originally named the 135th Street 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.
18	Donnell Library Center [16]		20 West 53rd Street	Opened in 1955, and closed in 2008; had a large reference and circulating collection.
19	Epiphany Library [17]		228 East 23rd Street
20	Fort Washington Library [18]		535 West 179th Street	Will be renovated starting mid-July 2021
21	George Bruce Library [19]		518 West 125th Street
22	Grand Central Library [20]		135 East 46th Street
23	Hamilton Fish Park Library [21]		415 East Houston Street
24	Hamilton Grange Library [22]		503 West 145th Street
25	Harlem Library [23]		9 West 124th Street
26	Hudson Park Library [24]		66 Leroy Street
27	Inwood Library [25]		4790 Broadway
28	Jefferson Market Library [26]		425 Avenue of the Americas
29	Kips Bay Library [27]		446 Third Avenue	Opened in 1972 as a replacement for the St. Gabriel's and Nathan Straus branches, which had been torn down to make way for construction of the Queens–Midtown Tunnel and Kips Bay Towers, respectively.
30	Macomb's Bridge Library [28]		2633 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard	The branch opened in 1955 at 2650 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, inside the Harlem River Houses, and was the smallest NYPL branch at 685 square feet (63.6 m2). In January 2020, the branch moved across the street to a larger space.
31	Mid-Manhattan Library [29]		455 Fifth Avenue	Opened in 1970 to replace the circulating division at the Schwarzman Building. Renovated from 2017 to 2020.
32	Morningside Heights Library [30]		2900 Broadway
33	Muhlenberg Library [31]		209 West 23rd Street	Carnegie gift, Closed for renovations indefinitely
34	Mulberry Street Library [32]		10 Jersey Street
35	New Amsterdam Library [33]		9 Murray Street
36	Ottendorfer Library [34]		135 Second Avenue
37	Riverside Library [35]		127 Amsterdam Avenue
38	Roosevelt Island Library [36]		524 Main Street 40.7608°N 73.9507°W / 40.7608; -73.9507	Opened In 1979 after being located in the Herman and Dorothy Reade apartment, then a community room, for three years.
39	Seward Park Library [37]		192 East Broadway	Originally a branch 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.
40	St. Agnes Library [38]		444 Amsterdam Avenue
41	Terence Cardinal Cooke–Cathedral Library [39]		560 Lexington Avenue 40.7567°N 73.9724°E / 40.7567; 73.9724
42	Tompkins Square Library [40]		331 East 10th Street
43	Washington Heights Library [41]		1000 St. Nicholas Avenue
44	Webster Library [42]		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.
45	Yorkville Library [43]		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
46	Allerton Library [44]		2740 Barnes Avenue	Opened in 1960, designed by Hertz and Salerni in conjunction with Department of Public Works.
47	Baychester Library [45]		2049 Asch Loop North	First opened in 1973, and remodeled in 2003.
48	Belmont Library and Enrico Fermi Cultural Center [46]		610 East 186th Street
49	Bronx Library Center [47]		310 East Kingsbridge Road
50	Castle Hill Library [48]		947 Castle Hill Avenue
51	City Island Library [49]		320 City Island Avenue
52	Clason's Point Library [50]		1215 Morrison Avenue	Designed by John J. O'Malley.
53	Eastchester Library [51]		1385 East Gun Hill Road
54	Edenwald Library [52]		1255 East 233rd Street
55	Francis Martin Library [53]		2150 University Avenue	Named after Francis W. Martin, the first district attorney of the Bronx.
56	Grand Concourse Library [54]		155 East 173rd Street 40°50′38″N 73°54′36″W
57	High Bridge Library [55]		78 West 168th Street
58	Hunt's Point Library [56]		877 Southern Boulevard
59	Jerome Park Library [57]		118 Eames Place
60	Kingsbridge Library [58]		291 West 231st Street
61	Melrose Library [59]		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.
62	Morris Park Library [60]		985 Morris Park Avenue
63	Morrisania Library [61]		610 East 169th Street
64	Mosholu Library [62]		285 East 205th Street	Opened in 1954.
65	Mott Haven Library [63]		321 East 140th Street
66	Parkchester Library [64]		1985 Westchester Avenue
67	Pelham Bay Library [65]		3060 Middletown Road
68	Pelham Parkway–Van Nest Library [66]		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.
69	Riverdale Library [67]		5540 Mosholu Avenue
70	Sedgwick Library [68]		1701 Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard
71	Soundview Library [69]		660 Soundview Avenue
72	Spuyten Duyvil Library [70]		650 West 235th Street
73	Throg's Neck Library [71]		3025 Cross Bronx Expressway Extension
74	Tremont Library [72]		1866 Washington Avenue
75	Van Cortlandt Library [73]		3874 Sedgwick Avenue
76	Wakefield Library [74]		4100 Lowerre Place
77	West Farms Library [75]		2085 Honeywell Avenue
78	Westchester Square Library [76]		2521 Glebe Avenue
79	Woodlawn Heights Library [77]		4355 Katonah Avenue
80	Woodstock Library [78]		761 East 160th Street	Two-story Carnegie library building opened in 1914. Contains children's, young adult, and adult collections at ground level and a multipurpose room on the second floor.

Libraries in Staten Island

	Library	Image	Address	Historical Note
81	Dongan Hills Library [79]		1617 Richmond Road	The branch started operating out of a location on Richmond Road in 1957 and moved to its current one-story location in 1975. The building was refurbished in 2008.
82	Great Kills Library [80]		56 Giffords Lane	The Great Kills branch was opened in 1927 as a one-story building and was replaced by the current three-story building in the 1950s. Fully renovated in 2005, it currently has a lower level for community events, a first floor for adult collections, and a second floor for children's collections.
83	Huguenot Park Library [81]		830 Huguenot Avenue	The branch opened in January 1985, replacing what was once the smallest New York Public Library building just east of the station (still standing). The Huguenot Park branch was possibly named in honor of the nearby Staten Island Railway station's former name.
84	Mariners Harbor Library [82]		206 South Avenue 40°38′5″N 74°9′59″W	Opened on December 16, 2013, the Mariners Harbor Library is located amidst the rich maritime heritage of Staten Island's Mariners Harbor neighborhood. A single-story branch library situated on a 16,000-square foot plot, Mariners Harbor is the thirteenth branch of The New York Public Library on Staten Island and serves roughly 30,000 people.
85	New Dorp Library [83]		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.
86	Port Richmond Library [84]		75 Bennett Street	Interest in a library began in 1833, and various private library groups operated during the 19th century. The Port Richmond branch's current Carnegie library structure was built in 1905, becoming Port Richmond's permanent library. The Chimes Playhouse auditorium was constructed in 1939, and the Children's Room was rehabilitated in 2008.
87	Richmondtown Library [85]		200 Clarke Avenue	The Richmondtown branch opened in 1996 and contains two floors: a first floor for adults and a second floor for children.
88	South Beach Library [86]		21-25 Robin Road	The South Beach branch started operating out of a location on Sand Lane in the mid-20th century, but was destroyed in a 1989 fire. The South Beach branch reopened in 1990 and moved to its current one-story, 3,000-square-foot (280 m2) location on Robin Road in 2000.
89	St. George Library Center [87]		5 Central Avenue	Opened June 1907, designed by Carrère and Hastings and built using Carnegie funds.
90	Stapleton Library [88]		132 Canal Street	The Carrere & Hastings-designed Carnegie library was built in 1907. It underwent significant renovations and remodeling from 2011 to 2013, including the addition of a 7,600-square-foot (710 m2) building. A minor controversy arose over the discrepancy of architectural styles between the modernist black-glass addition and the original structure.
91	Todt Hill–Westerleigh Library [89]		2550 Victory Boulevard 40.6096°N 74.1487°W / 40.6096; -74.1487	The three-story branch opened in 1991.
92	Tottenville Library [90]		7430 Amboy Road	The one-story Carnegie library building was designed by Carrère and Hastings and opened in 1904. It is a New York City designated landmark.
93	West New Brighton Library [91]		976 Castleton Avenue	When the branch opened in 1913, it was a sub-branch of the NYPL. The West New Brighton moved to a second location in 1918, and then to its present site in 1933.

See also

• List of Brooklyn Public Library branches
• List of Carnegie libraries in New York City
• List of Queens Library branches

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
• Official map of locations