Public Libraries in Manhattan

Spanish Harlem · Manhattan

224 East 125th Street, New York, NY 10035

The 125th Street branch of The New York Public Library has served East Harlem since 1904. Reflecting the cultural diversity of the neighborhood, the library now offers books and magazines in English and Spanish and a strong African-American heritage collection.

Midtown West · Manhattan

18 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019

The 53rd Street branch of The New York Public Library is a bright, inviting oasis of books and learning in the center of Midtown Manhattan.

Midtown East · Manhattan

127 East 58th Street, New York, NY 10022

The 58th Street branch of The New York Public Library opened on May 10, 1907. Once housed in a Carnegie building, it now occupies part of two floors of an office tower.

Upper East Side · Manhattan

328 East 67th Street, New York, NY 10065

The 67th Street branch of The New York Public Library dates to 1905 and was built to resemble the Yorkville branch. More than 100 years later, it continues to serve Manhattan’s bustling Upper East Side.

Upper East Side · Manhattan

112 East 96th Street, New York, NY 10128

The 96th Street branch opened on September 1, 1905 and is one of the locations built with funds donated by Andrew Carnegie. Since then, it has become a vital center of information, learning, and recreation for a diverse community.

Chelsea · Manhattan

40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011

The Andrew Heiskell Library provides talking books and magazines and braille for people who are blind, visually impaired, or are otherwise physically unable to read standard print. The library serves residents who live in New York City and Long Island.

Battery Park City · Manhattan

175 North End Avenue, New York, NY 10282

The Battery Park City branch is The New York Public Library's first green LEED-certified branch in Manhattan. It features a reading area for adults and young adults, as well as a special children's reading area and multipurpose programming space.

Upper West Side · Manhattan

150 West 100th Street, New York, NY 10025

The Bloomingdale Library is bright, spacious, wheelchair accessible, and houses a general reference collection and borrowing collections for adults and teenagers on the ground floor. The children's collection shares the second floor with an auditorium used for library programs and community meetings.

Chinatown · Manhattan

33 East Broadway, New York, NY 10002

Chatham Square Library has been an integral part of the Chinatown neighborhood since its earliest days, with a circulating Chinese language collection available since 1911. It is one of the busiest branches of The New York Public Library.

Midtown West · Manhattan

742 10th Avenue, New York, NY 10019

The Columbus Branch of The New York Public Library has been a center for education in the multiethnic, working-class neighborhood of Clinton since the branch opened in 1909. The branch has a TechConnect computer lab on the lower level that provides free weekday computer classes conducted by trained professionals.

Central Harlem · Manhattan

104 West 136th Street, New York, NY 10030

The Countee Cullen Branch gives Harlem residents of all ages access to library services delivered in a friendly and effective manner. We are home to the James Weldon Johnson Reference Collection for children, books on the African-American experience, a reference collection, including college catalogs and financial aid information, and the African-American/Black Culture reference collection.

Gramercy · Manhattan

228 East 23rd Street, New York, NY 10010

The Epiphany Branch of The New York Public Library has served the Gramercy Park-Stuyvesant Town area since 1887. Today, the handsome three-story building houses adult, young adult, and children's collections.

Washington Heights · Manhattan

535 West 179th Street, New York, NY 10033

Fort Washington opened to the public in April 1914. Today, the branch continues to be a valuable resource for the community.

Morningside Heights · Manhattan

518 West 125th Street, New York, NY 10027

The George Bruce Library features a spacious children's room and cultural programs for all ages. Completed in 1888, the original George Bruce Library was located on 42nd Street.

Hamilton Heights · Manhattan

503 West 145th Street, New York, NY 10031

Declared a landmark in 1970, Hamilton Grange Library houses a variety of collections that serve an ethnically diverse community. The branch offers programs for adults, teenagers, and children; provides lifelong learning materials for new adult readers; and has meeting space for use by neighborhood groups.

Central Harlem · Manhattan

9 West 124th Street, New York, NY 10027

The Harlem Library has been welcoming community residents since 1826, when Harlem was an isolated village. The library was one of the first to be incorporated into the extensive New York Public Library branch system.

Central Harlem · Manhattan

203 West 115th Street, New York, NY 10026

The 115th Street branch of The New York Public Library opened on November 6, 1908 and was built with funds donated by Andrew Carnegie. Over the past century, the library has evolved into a focal point of community activity, learning, and artistic production.

West Village · Manhattan

66 Leroy Street, New York, NY 10014

Hudson Park has served Greenwich Village since 1906. In 1920, the building was extended eastward, allowing patrons to enter the library from the newly extended Seventh Avenue South.

Inwood · Manhattan

4790 Broadway, New York, NY 10034

Inwood Library, Manhattan's northernmost branch, serves a large, multi-ethnic community. The branch has strong Spanish language and small Russian language collections, which include a wide range of audiobooks and DVDs.

West Village · Manhattan

425 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10011

Originally a courthouse, the Jefferson Market Library has served the Greenwich Village community for over forty years. The building, a New York City landmark, was designed by architects Frederick Clark Withers and Calvert Vaux (who also assisted in the design of Central Park) in a Victorian Gothic style.

Kips Bay · Manhattan

446 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10016

The Kips Bay Branch of The New York Public Library opened in 1972, replacing two former libraries: St. Gabriel's and Nathan Straus.

Central Harlem · Manhattan

2633 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd., New York, NY 10039

The Macomb’s Bridge Library opened in 1955, proudly named after the nearby historical landmark Macomb’s Dam Bridge. The swing bridge has been in operation since May 1985, and is the fifth oldest in New York City.

Morningside Heights · Manhattan

2900 Broadway, New York, NY 10025

The Morningside Heights Branch of The New York Public Library is located on Broadway at the corner of 113th Street. It has been serving the Morningside Heights area of Manhattan since 1914.

Chelsea · Manhattan

209 West 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011

Opened in 1906, the Muhlenberg Library is one of the 65 branches built from funds given to New York City by Andrew Carnegie. Designed by esteemed architects Carrere and Hastings, the library has served the Chelsea area for nearly a century.

Nolita · Manhattan

10 Jersey Street, New York, NY 10012

The New York Public Library's Mulberry Street branch is located at the site of a former chocolate factory in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, historically known as the Cast Iron District. The branch entrance is located at ground level, and two other floors are located below ground.

Tribeca · Manhattan

9 Murray Street, New York, NY 10007

Established in 1989, the New Amsterdam Branch is housed on the ground floor of an office building, one block west of City Hall. Although small in size, the library bustles with activity and people all day long.

East Village · Manhattan

135 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10003

The Ottendorfer Branch of the New York Public Library opened in 1884 as New York City's first free public library. Designed by German-born architect William Schickel, this landmark building combines Queen Anne and neo-Italian Renaissance styles with an exterior ornamented by innovative terracotta putti.

Upper West Side · Manhattan

127 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10023

The Riverside branch dates to 1897, when the Riverside Association donated its small collection to the New York Free Circulating Library. It has since evolved into a modern library located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Roosevelt Island · Manhattan

504 Main Street, New York, NY 10044

The Roosevelt Island branch of The New York Public Library opened in a new 5,200-square-foot location in January 2021, down the street from the previous library. The space, in a former school, offers the community much-needed space, including dedicated areas for kids and teens, a community room for programs, and up-to-date technology.

Central Harlem · Manhattan

515 Malcolm X Boulevard (135th St and Malcolm X Blvd), New York, NY 10037

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem is one of the world’s leading cultural institutions devoted to the research, preservation, and exhibition of materials focused on African American, African Diaspora, and African experiences. As a research division of The New York Public Library, the Schomburg Center features diverse programming and collections spanning over 11 million it

Lower East Side · Manhattan

192 East Broadway, New York, NY 10002

The Seward Park Branch of The New York Public Library is one of 65 branches erected with funds given to New York City by Andrew Carnegie. The building houses adult, reference, and young adult collections on the third floor; a children’s room on the second floor; adult, media, and world language collections on the first floor; and a literacy center on the lower level.

Upper West Side · Manhattan

444 Amsterdam Avenue (between West 81st and West 82nd Streets), New York, NY 10024

Beginning in 1893 as a parish library at St. Agnes Chapel on West 91st Street, the St.

Midtown East · Manhattan

455 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016

The New York Public Library’s largest circulating branch—the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL)—is currently open for nearly full service following a full-scale renovation. Located at the site of the former Mid-Manhattan Library, the new, state-of-the-art library, designed by architect Francine Houben, of Mecanoo, with Beyer Blinder Belle, features services for all ages, thanks to a genero

Midtown East · Manhattan

Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018

The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building is part of The New York Public Library, which consists of four major research libraries and 88 branch libraries located in the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island.

Upper West Side · Manhattan

40 Lincoln Center Plaza (entrance at 111 Amsterdam between 64th and 65th), New York, NY 10023

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts houses one of the world's most extensive combinations of circulating, reference, and rare archival collections in its field. These materials are available free of charge, along with a wide range of special programs, including exhibitions, seminars, and performances.

East Village · Manhattan

331 East 10th Street, New York, NY 10009

The Tompkins Square Branch of The New York Public Library has been serving residents of Manhattan's Lower East Side since 1904. Opening in 1887 as the Fifth Street Branch of the Aguilar Free Library, the branch relocated three times before moving to its present site facing Tompkins Square Park.

Upper East Side · Manhattan

1465 York Avenue, New York, NY 10075

Among the oldest libraries in New York City, the Webster Branch has a history that can be traced back to 1893, before its incorporation into The New York Public Library Branch system. Founded as the Webster Free Library, it was named after Charles B.

Upper East Side · Manhattan

222 East 79th Street, New York, NY 10075

The Yorkville Branch of The New York Public Library is considered one of New York's most elegant turn of the century adaptations of Palladian-inspired architecture. The building is a designated New York City Landmark and is listed on the National and State Registers of Historic Places.