Art Daily Newsletter
The plan calls for the
removal of seven stories of outdated, aboveground stacks inside the
Schwarzman Building, which are closed to the public and are well below
current preservation standards.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New York Public Library’s Board of Trustees today approved the development of 30,000 square feet of additional collections storage at its landmark 42nd Street building, creating a space that can properly preserve approximately 1.5 million volumes. Thanks to a generous gift of $8 million from Library Trustee Abby S. Milstein and her husband, Howard P. Milstein, the Library can now move forward with a proposal to develop the lower level of the Bryant Park Stack Extension (BPSE), two floors of storage space underneath Bryant Park that is connected to the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. The facility was opened in 1991, but at the time, only one floor was outfitted to store valuable research material. The project marks a key adjustment to the Library’s Central Library Plan (CLP), which will transform the historic Midtown building into the world’s largest combined research and ... More |
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