Inside The NYPL’s Eerily Empty Rose Reading Room

Good news: the NYPL’s Rose Reading Room will reopen in 2016. That will be nearly two years after it closed its doors when a foot-wide piece of plaster (one of the rosettes) fell from the ceiling, but still ahead of the previously scheduled reopening date in 2017.

From Inside The NYPL’s Eerily Empty Rose Reading Room: Gothamist