When I was a kid, long before I knew the distinction between the Research Libraries and the Branch Libraries of New York Public Library (NYPL), you could still go to the big Beaux Arts building on 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue to borrow books or work on the more rigorous middle school/high school papers, as well as to the local branches. By the time my children were in school, the popular lending library at what I thought of as the "Main" library on 42nd Street was long gone, and for schoolwork we went mostly to the "central" libraries: the Donnell Library Center (to take advantage of a wonderful children's library) and the Mid-Manhattan Library.
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