This largest public-private rehabilitation in NYPL’s history creates a lending library that serves as both a model and catalyst for a rejuvenated library system. The transformed library, occupying a 1914 building originally designed for the Arnold Constable department store, adds 35 percent more public space and hundreds more seats. The circulating collection, with more than 1.7 million visits a year, is housed in “The Long Room,” offering five floors of browsable book stacks and two floors of meeting and consultation rooms. A dedicated business library, adult learning center, and children’s and teen library each occupy a full floor.
BBB worked in collaboration with Mecanoo on the Midtown Campus Renovation, which includes renovation of the historic and iconic Stephen A. Schwarzman Building across Fifth Avenue.
