Secrets of the New York Public Library | NYC History

🦁The lions in front of the NYPL The New York Public Library could have been water buffalos instead if President Theodore Roosevelt got his way!

There are secrets lurking all around this beaux-arts library opened in 1911. From the story of America's first supermodel to millions of books buried underneath Bryant Park.

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