Posts from Ottendorfer Library

East Village Landmarks – 96 and 98 St Marks Place

by Billy Parrott, Associate Director, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL)
January 7, 2010

After a number of years in an historic Greenwich Village library I’ve spent the past few weeks in an equally historic East Village library. The Ottendorfer Branch of The New York Public Library is surrounded by literary, political, and musical history. From Leon Trotsky and

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