Rose Main reading room

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Opening Hours : It's temporarily closed due to the current pandemic situation.

Special Attraction : You can dedicate a chair or table to someone as a way to honor someone special. The front gate's famous marble lions named “Patience” and “Fortitude”.

Rose Main reading room, New York City Overview

In midtown Manhattan, near Bryant Park is located the most famous branch of New York public library; he Stephen A. Schwarzman Building.

The Rose main reading room, located on the third floor of this library has the architecture of 16 meter high ceilings & paintings of clouds and skyscrapers high up on the ceilings which are the main attractions of this Beaux-Arts-style building. In this 500 seater reading room, either you can explore the thousands of reference materials available on the adjoining shelves or request a book from the Milstein stacks(with around 4 million books & also one of the biggest book stacks in the world). In 1998, the reading room was renovated & renamed to Rose main reading room in honor of the daughter of a trustee. The library also offers around 93000 programs a year for free.