Greenpoint’s New Public Library “Makes You Want to Move In”

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A suite of airless rooms with stained carpets makes for a bad library. Luckily, Greenpoint's light-filled new library is so much better, doing double duty as an environmental education center. JDavidsonNYC writes

Photo: SCAPE and Ty Cole If you’re a New Yorker, chances are you live within walking distance of one of the city’s 207 branch libraries. Roughly a quarter are early-20th-century Carnegie libraries, limestone-and-brick-fronted affairs with high arched windows and fancy cornices meant to bring a sense of ceremony to opening a hardbound volume. Another 65 or so date from the 1960s and ’70s.

The patio. Photo: SCAPE and Ty Cole Designed by the architecture firm Marble Fairbanks, it’s filled with light and dotted with details that will make its users happy — that is, when pandemic rules ease and they’re finally allowed past the circulation desk. It’s a narrow three-floor building with a one-story wing sticking out at an angle, like a hastily piled stack of books waiting for someone to knock it back into alignment.

 

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