List of Carnegie libraries in New York City

The following list of Carnegie libraries in New York City provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in New York City, where 67 libraries were built with funds from one grant totaling $5,202,261 (worth some $147 million today), awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York on December 8, 1899. Although the original grant was negotiated in 1899, most of the grant money was awarded as the libraries were built between 1901 and 1923.

Key

      Building still operating as a library
      Building standing, but now serving another purpose
      Building no longer standing
      Building listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Carnegie libraries in Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island

In Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island, 39 libraries were built and became part of the New York Public Library.

Library Borough Image Location[1] Notes[1][2]
1 115th Street Manhattan 203 W. 115th St.
40°48′10″N 73°57′14″W / 40.80278°N 73.95389°W		 Designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened in 1908.
2 125th Street Manhattan 224 E. 125th St.
40°48′10.89″N 73°56′5.52″W / 40.8030250°N 73.9348667°W		 Designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened in 1904.
3 135th Street Manhattan 103 W. 135th St.
40°48′52.31″N 73°56′28.98″W / 40.8145306°N 73.9413833°W		 Designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened in 1905. Now part of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a research center of The New York Public Library.
4 58th Street Manhattan 121-7 East 58th Street Designed by Carrère & Hastings and opened May 10, 1907. It was demolished and replaced by a new branch in two floors of an office tower at 127 East 58th Street, which opened in 1969.
5 67th Street Manhattan 328 E. 67th St.
40°45′53.69″N 73°57′34.29″W / 40.7649139°N 73.9595250°W		 Designed by Babb, Cook & Willard in the style of the Yorkville branch and opened in 1905, this building has undergone two extensive renovations in the 1950s and 2005.
6 96th Street Manhattan 112 E. 96th St.
40°47′9.57″N 73°57′6.34″W / 40.7859917°N 73.9517611°W		 Designed by Babb, Cook & Willard and opened in September 22, 1905.
7 Aguilar Manhattan 174 E. 110th St.
40°47′39.11″N 73°56′36.32″W / 40.7941972°N 73.9434222°W		 Designed by Herts & Tallant, this building opened as a branch of The New York Public Library in November 1905. "This library is apparently not an entirely new building but is rather an extensive renovation of the earlier [1899] Aguilar Library building on the same site."[3]
8 Chatham Square Manhattan 33 E. Broadway
40°42′48.25″N 73°59′47.44″W / 40.7134028°N 73.9965111°W		 Designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened in 1903.
9 Columbus Manhattan 742 10th Ave.
40°45′53.85″N 73°59′28.53″W / 40.7649583°N 73.9912583°W		 Designed by Babb, Cook & Willard and opened in 1909.
10 Epiphany Manhattan 228 E. 23rd St.
40°44′17.18″N 73°58′55.06″W / 40.7381056°N 73.9819611°W		 Designed by Carrère & Hastings and opened in September 1907.
11 Fordham The Bronx 2556 Bainbridge Ave.
40°51′45.76″N 73°53′34.5″W / 40.8627111°N 73.892917°W		 Designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened in 1923, this building was the Fordham Library Center, The New York Public Library's central branch in the Bronx, through 2005, when it closed and was replaced by the newly built Bronx Library Center.
12 Fort Washington Manhattan 535 W. 179th St.
40°50′52.12″N 73°56′2.41″W / 40.8478111°N 73.9340028°W		 Designed by Cook & Welch and opened in April 1914.
13 Hamilton Fish Manhattan 388-92 East Houston Street Designed by Carrère & Hastings and opened in 1909, the building was razed during the widening of Houston Street. A public housing project now stands at its original site. A new Hamilton Fish Park Branch opened at 415 East Houston Street in 1960.
14 Hamilton Grange Manhattan 503 W. 145th St.
40°49′32.2″N 73°56′53.04″W / 40.825611°N 73.9480667°W		 Designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened in 1907.
15 Harlem Manhattan 9 W. 124th St.
40°48′22.29″N 73°56′35.86″W / 40.8061917°N 73.9432944°W		 Designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened in 1909, this building was renovated in 2004 at a cost of nearly $4 million.
16 High Bridge The Bronx 78 W. 168th St.
40°50′17.48″N 73°55′25.37″W / 40.8381889°N 73.9237139°W		 Designed by Carrère & Hastings and opened in 1908. Demolished in 1975 and replaced by a new High Bridge Branch on the same site.
17 Hudson Park Manhattan 66 Leroy St.
40°43′47.95″N 74°0′18.57″W / 40.7299861°N 74.0051583°W		 Designed by Carrère & Hastings and opened in 1906.
18 Hunt's Point The Bronx 877 Southern Blvd.
40°49′7.11″N 73°53′38.68″W / 40.8186417°N 73.8940778°W		 Designed by Carrère & Hastings and completed in 1929, this was the final Carnegie building added to the New York Public Library system.
19 Kingsbridge The Bronx 3041 Kingsbridge Ave.
40°52′44.18″N 73°54′26.79″W / 40.8789389°N 73.9074417°W		 Designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened May 19, 1905. This branch outgrew its original building and closed in 1958. It is now the Spuyten Duyvil Preschool.
20 Melrose The Bronx 910 Morris Ave.
40°49′35.73″N 73°55′3.42″W / 40.8265917°N 73.9176167°W		 A Carrère & Hastings design, this branch opened January 16, 1914. It was originally four stories but was reduced to two in 1959.
21 Morrisania The Bronx 610 E. 169th St.
40°49′53″N 73°54′6.16″W / 40.83139°N 73.9017111°W		 Designed by Babb, Cook & Willard and opened in 1908.
22 Mott Haven The Bronx 321 E. 140th St.
40°48′41.49″N 73°55′27.42″W / 40.8115250°N 73.9242833°W		 The oldest library building in the Bronx, this branch opened in 1905, designed by Carrère & Hastings.
23 Muhlenberg Manhattan 209 W. 23rd St.
40°44′40.02″N 73°59′45.61″W / 40.7444500°N 73.9960028°W		 Designed by Carrère and Hastings, this branch opened February 19, 1906.
24 Port Richmond Staten Island 75 Bennett St.
40°38′15.19″N 74°7′52.14″W / 40.6375528°N 74.1311500°W		 Designed by Carrère & Hastings and opened in 1905.
25 Riverside Manhattan 190 Amsterdam Ave.
40°46′35.9″N 73°59′1.04″W / 40.776639°N 73.9836222°W		 Designed by Carrère & Hastings and opened in 1905, this building stood until 1969, when it was replaced by a newer library building on the same site. That branch was replaced by another in 1992, at 127 Amsterdam Ave.
26 Rivington Street Manhattan 61 Rivington St.
40°43′15.15″N 73°59′24.84″W / 40.7208750°N 73.9902333°W		 Designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened in 1905, the building is now a church.
27 Saint Agnes Manhattan 444 Amsterdam Ave.
40°47′5.44″N 73°58′38.96″W / 40.7848444°N 73.9774889°W		 Designed by Babb, Cook & Willard, this branch opened in 1906.
28 Saint Gabriel's Park Manhattan 303-5 East 36th Street Designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened in 1908. Razed in order to construct the Queens–Midtown Tunnel.
29 Saint George Staten Island 5 Central Ave.
40°38′30.18″N 74°4′35.94″W / 40.6417167°N 74.0766500°W		 Known today as the St. George Library Center, this Carrère and Hastings work opened on June 26, 1907, and is the largest library on Staten Island.
30 Seward Park Manhattan 192 E. Broadway
40°42′52.08″N 73°59′18.68″W / 40.7144667°N 73.9885222°W		 Designed by Babb, Cook & Willard, this branch opened on November 11, 1909.
31 Stapleton Staten Island 132 Canal St.
40°37′35.25″N 74°4′40.78″W / 40.6264583°N 74.0779944°W		 Designed by Carrère & Hastings and opened in 1907.
32 Tompkins Square Manhattan 331 E. 10th St.
40°43′38.39″N 73°58′49.5″W / 40.7273306°N 73.980417°W		 Designed by McKim, Mead & White, this branch opened in 1904.
33 Tottenville Staten Island 7430 Amboy Rd.
40°30′34.5″N 74°14′38.79″W / 40.509583°N 74.2441083°W		 A Carrère and Hastings design, this branch opened in 1904.
34 Tremont The Bronx 1866 Washington Ave.
40°50′45.72″N 73°53′54.04″W / 40.8460333°N 73.8983444°W		 Designed by Carrère & Hastings and opened in 1905.
35 Washington Heights Manhattan 1000 St. Nicholas Ave.
40°50′4.26″N 73°56′22.81″W / 40.8345167°N 73.9396694°W		 Designed by Carrère & Hastings, this branch opened in 1914.
36 Webster Manhattan 1465 York Ave.
40°46′14.27″N 73°57′4.6″W / 40.7706306°N 73.951278°W		 This Babb, Cook & Willard work opened on October 24, 1906.
37 West 40th Street Manhattan 457 West 40th Street Designed by Cook & Welch, this building opened in 1913 and is now part of the Covenant House complex.
38 Woodstock The Bronx 761 E. 160th St.
40°49′13.45″N 73°54′19.4″W / 40.8204028°N 73.905389°W		 Designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened in 1914.
39 Yorkville Manhattan 222 E. 79th St.
40°46′25.15″N 73°57′22.72″W / 40.7736528°N 73.9563111°W		 Designed by James Brown Lord, this branch opened December 13, 1902, the first Carnegie library built in New York City.

Carnegie libraries in Brooklyn

Brooklyn received $1.6 million ($45.4 million today) of the entire grant to construct 21 libraries for the Brooklyn Public Library.

Library Image Location Notes
1 Arlington 203 Arlington Ave. at Warwick St.
2 Bedford
3 Brownsville
4 Bushwick
5 Carroll Park Union and Clinton Streets
6 DeKalb
7 Eastern Parkway
8 Flatbush 22 Linden Blvd. at Flatbush Ave.
9 Fort Hamilton
10 Greenpoint
11 Leonard 81 Devoe St. at Leonard St., Williamsburg Opened in 1908; designed by William Tubby
12 Macon
13 Pacific Pacific St & 4th Ave
14 Prospect Park Slope
15 Red Hook
16 Saratoga
17 South
18 Stone Avenue
19 Walt Whitman Saint Edwards Place, Ft Greene
20 Washington Irving
21 Williamsburg 240 Division Avenue 40°42′25″N 73°57′27″W / 40.70694°N 73.95750°W

Carnegie libraries in Queens

Queens received $240,000 ($6.8 million today) from the grant and built seven libraries for the Queens Library.

Library Image Location Notes
1 Astoria 14-01 Astoria Blvd.
2 Elmhurst 86-01 Broadway
40°44′18″N 73°52′38″W / 40.738470°N 73.877307°W		 Demolished 2012
3 Far Rockaway Destroyed by fire in 1962
4 Flushing
5 Poppenhusen 121-23 14th Ave. and
13-16 College Point Blvd.
6 Richmond Hill 118-14 Hillside Ave.
7 Woodhaven 85-41 Forest Pkwy.

Notes

See also:

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Libraries and Hours, NYPL". Retrieved 2009-06-22.
  2. ↑ Dierickx, Mary B. (1996). The Architecture of Literacy: The Carnegie Libraries of New York City, pp. 104-186. Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and the New York City Dept. of General Services, New York. ISBN 1-56256-717-9.
  3. ↑ Dierickx. The Architecture of Literacy, p. 125.

References

Note: The above references, while all authoritative, are not entirely mutually consistent. Some details of this list may have been drawn from one of the references without support from the others. Reader discretion is advised.

External links

Historic Districts Council pages on Carnegie libraries in Brooklyn, The Bronx and Queens.