Congratulations! NYPL 100th birthday.

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Congratulations! NYPL 100th  birthday.

The New York Public Library's main building turns 100. Officially, It's the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Unofficially, it's the heart of literary Manhattan, at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue.

I had visitied the NYPL some years ago. I had received welcomed by the marble lions, 'Patience' and 'Fortitude'.

As the report, Library President Paul LeClerc explains that the founders of the library were trying to send a message. "New York has always been a ferociously ambitious city, even when there wasn't very much to show off," he says. "Those involved in creating this library wanted to create something that was on a par with the great libraries of the European capitals, especially London, Paris and Berlin."

I think that the NYPL is the symbol of the free reading, the intellectual freedom and the sense of civic pride.

I also want to read the memorial book 'Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100' I want to know the people who work together with the library --writers, artists, philosophers, scientists, musicians, athletes, architects, choreographers, journalists and librarians. It is the history of the our thoughts and visions.

Congratulations! The history of the library!