New York

New York Public Library

The New York Public Library, with nearly 53 million items, is the second largest public library in the United States (behind the Library of Congress) and fourth largest in the world.  As part of the John Astor will conditions the Astor Library was built in 1854 in the East Village area of New York the […]

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Central Park

Central park is located in the middle-upper Manhattan, on 778 acres of city-owned land.  In 1857 Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux competed and won a design competition to improve the land called “Greensward Plan”.  The park opened the winter of 1858 and grew to it’s current size of 843 acres in 1873.  Today Central […]

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