- The Frick Collection
1 East 70th St.
New York, NY 10021
212-288-0700
www.frick.org
- The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Ave.
New York, NY 10016
212-768-0008
www.themorgan.org
- The Library Hotel
299 Madison Ave. at
41st St.
New York, NY 10017
212-983-4500
www.libraryhotel.org
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Leading up to the NYC library is Library Way.
- New York Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library
Fifth Avenue and 42nd streets
New York, NY 10018
212-930-0830
www.nypl.org
More Info:
- The Bookworm’s Big Apple by Susan Barile, is an easy-to-use, lively handbook to help readers locate nearly 400 bookstores in Manhattan. Divided into four sections—general, speciality, used and antiquarian—this guidebook offers stock descriptions, store hours, special services offered to customers and lots of other information about book buying in the publishing capital of the world.
- Visit www.citidex.com/108.htm#C1405 for a list of 70 book stores in New York City, fun for a rainy afternoon or an evening out with your favorite bookworm. You’ll find such book stores as Applause Theater & Cinema Books, Biography Book Shop, Drama Book Shop, New York Astrology Center and Murder Ink.
- The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Ave., New York, N.Y., 212-539-8500; www. publictheater.org . The Bard brought to life: The Public Theater was founded 50 years ago by Joseph Papp as the Shakespeare Workshop. It now produces new plays, musicals, and productions of Shakespeare and other classics, at its headquarters on Lafayette Street (the former Astor Library) and at the Delacorte Theater, the permanent summertime home of free Shakespeare in the Park. Each summer two Shakespeare works on presented at the beautiful outdoor amphitheater in Central Park with an illuminated castle as the backdrop.
