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Ep. 7 "Serious Readers" | Library Stories

Dorothy Carey used Jefferson Market Library often when she and her husband were raising their two daughters in the West Village. Years later, after her husband passed away, she returned to the Library and found a group of like-minded people to help her in this new phase of life.

Ep. 7 "Serious Readers" | Library Stories

"The people are intelligent, intellectual, lively, nice, and it just suits me...in this very hyperactive world, here it is: steady and stable." - Dorothy Carey, Jefferson Market Library Patron

Posted by NYPL The New York Public Library on Thursday, January 21, 2016

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