News & Events

  • Naming Opportunities

      Mid-Manhattan Library was always an awkward name, it does not trip off the tongue as Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library will. But NYPL has a way with euphonious acronyms, think of ReCAP, MaRLI, SIBL and our favorites – the Bryant Park Storage Extension (BPSE), pronounced Bipsey and the electronic catalog (CATNYP), pronounced Catnip. We never liked…

  • VICTORY: Rose Reading Room landmarked at last!

    We did it! After months of intense advocacy, we have finally secured interior landmark designation for the Rose Reading Room and Bill Blass Catalog Room! Today the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously to formally designate both spaces. Going forward, any major changes to interior components and fixtures including but not limited to decorative plasterwork, metalwork…

  • Urge LPC to comprehensively landmark the iconic NYPL interiors

    We need your support! LPC is proposing to calendar only *some* of the renowned interiors of the 42nd Street Library (476 Fifth Avenue). Although the public may not speak at the upcoming public meeting, you can submit written testimony online. Tell the LPC that they must calendar ALL of the eligible interiors of this masterpiece of…

  • Inwood Library Deal Faces Scrutiny

    Recently, Charles Warren, President of Save NYPL, appeared on CUNY TV’s Independent Sources to discuss NYPL’s plans to demolish the popular Inwood Public Library and replace it with a new library within a low-cost residential building. If you missed the interview, you can now watch it online.    

  • Landmark the Rose Reading Room!

    The Committee to Save NYPL is petitioning the Landmarks Preservation Commission to officially designate the Rose Reading Room and other public spaces in the 42nd Street Library as interior landmarks. We need your help! Please sign the petition below and share it with your friends, family, and colleagues. https://www.change.org/p/meenakshi-srinivasan-landmark-the-new-york-public-library-rose-reading-room Preservationists had formally requested these spaces…

  • Upcoming Meeting on the Mid-Manhattan Library Renovation

      NYPL will present its new designs for the renovation of the Mid-Manhattan Library and hold a discussion with the architects of the project this coming Tuesday.  There will be an opportunity to ask questions. The meeting will be: Tuesday, December 13th, 4:30 PM Mid-Manhattan Library, 6th Floor (Fifth Avenue and 40th Street) We encourage…

  • Save NYPL Named Best Civic Gadflies by The Village Voice

      We are honored to have been named 2016’s Best Civic Gladfies by the Village Voice: “By now, everyone from New York Public Library leaders to City Council members agrees that the NYPL’s 2008 decision to sell its Donnell branch to a Chinese luxury-hotel company for a fraction of its value was a big mistake. But the NYPL…

  • New York Magazine Gets it Right on the New Replacement Donnell Library

    New York magazine absolutely nails it on the new Donnell replacement library, “a sleek but shrunken pit fitted out with bleachers, bar stools, and a megascreen, plus a smattering of circulating volumes.” Aptly titled “The New 53rd Street Library Is Nice, Unless You Like to Read Books,” the article goes on to note: Neither architects nor librarians shaped…

  • City Journal Eviscerates Donnell Deal

      We’d like to thank everyone who joined us in protesting the opening of Donnell Library’s shrunken replacement last week. It was a good turn out. The glitzy, stage-managed ribbon-cutting ceremony was moved indoors, but our demonstration received ample coverage in DNAInfo and The Wall Street Journal. Perhaps the defining take on the sordid affair appeared last week…

  • Readers, NOT Real Estate: No More Donnell Deals!

    After eight years of delays, the replacement for Donnell Library will open next Monday at 10am. If you are free that day, please join us as we remind NYPL officials that the opening of the new (significantly smaller) library is no cause for celebration. Beloved for its children’s literature and foreign language collection, the Donnell…

  • NYU’s Bobst Library Removes an Entire Floor of Stacks

    NYPL is not the only New York library emptying its stacks.  New York Univiersity’s Bobst Library is removing the stacks from the entire seventh floor to make way for more study space and a remodeled media center.

  • NYPL Finally Delivers Some Books… But Wait!

    NYPL has announced the completion of the underground storage facility built when Vartan Gregorian led the Library in the 1980s. CSNYPL has long advocated the use of this space. But even as they fill it with books, questions remain. On-site books, once routinely delivered in fifteen minutes, now take forty-five. And, while boasting of the capacity…