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I never get tired of this place

Entrance to the Rose Reading Room at the main New York Public Library. A carved wooden doorway with columns on either side and the following words painted in gold above the threshold: "A good Booke is the pretious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalm'd and treasur'd up on purpose to a life beyond life." Above the doorway is a very tall arched window with many panes letting us glimpse the painted ceiling of the reading room, depicting a blue sky and clouds framed in intricate carved gilt wood.
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Kroberthrhking.bsky.social

Looks and feels heavnly

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EGelongreen.bsky.social

learn to spell book, dorks!

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📌

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I was having dinner with my dad the other night and he started talking about how he worked there as a young person, and how they would literally ride the stacks in the little conveyor belt carts for fun.

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DPdcpierson.bsky.social

THE greatest

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I never did find that! 😢 I did get caught up in the Polonsky Exhibition, so after that I didn't do much wandering around or trying to figure out how to find anything in there. 😕

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I miss it keenly! Such a heavenly place.

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BTburrata.bsky.social

I like to go there and fantasize that scholarship/research/knowledge are valued as much as the architecture suggests. I spend a lot of time there.

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If I ever make another trip to NYC, I need to go see that in person. That's incredible.

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To make it #NYC#NYPL

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Freelance writer and editor. Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review. Copy chief at Columbia Magazine.
38.3k followers2.3k following36.8k posts