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Seward Park Library: One of New York’s most beautiful branch libraries also had a rooftop view

Jeffrey Liss

Below is a picture, facing east, of Seward Park Library in the Lower East Side at 192 E. Broadway (picture taken in 1911). This spectacular branch library, funded by Andrew Carnegie, opened in November 1909, two years before the 42nd Street main branch opened.

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