New York Public Library
Also known as New York Library, The New York Public Library, New York City Public Library, New York City Library, NY Public Library, NYPL, nypl.org, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
public library system in New York City
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The New York Public Library is a public library system serving New York City, providing free access to books, resources, and information for residents and visitors. It matters because it offers essential educational and cultural services to the community, democratizing access to knowledge regardless of people's ability to pay.
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- www.nypl.org
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The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City. With nearly 53 million items and 92 locations, the New York Public Library is the second-largest public library in the United States behind the Library of Congress and one of the largest public libraries in the world. It is a private, non-governmental, independently managed, nonprofit corporation operating with both private and public financing.
The library has branches in the boroughs of the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island and affiliations with academic and professional libraries in the New York metropolitan area. The city's other two boroughs, Brooklyn and Queens, are not served by the New York Public Library system, but rather by their respective borough library systems: the Brooklyn Public Library and the Queens Public Library. The branch libraries are open to the general public and consist of circulating libraries. The New York Public Library also has four research libraries, which are also open to the general public.