A FRESH START

摘要

When your older sibling is the famous, lion-flanked Stephen A. Schwarzman Building of the New York Public Library (NYPL), that can be a hard act to follow. For years, while the high-profile historic building got most of the glory, NYPL's Mid-Manhattan branch across Fifth Avenue got most of the traffic-and resulting wear and tear-holding the heavily used Marron Family Circulating Collections rather than historic and research-oriented offerings.