Day: May 6, 2015
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Celebrating Carnegie’s Gift to New Yorkers
More Than a Century of NYC’s Neighborhood Libraries The New York Public Library is proud to honor Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919), the visionary philanthropist whose gift of $5,200,000 toward the building of branch libraries in New York City helped guarantee that every New Yorker has access to a library in his or her neighborhood. Spurred on…