In Library’s Back Pages, a Vivid History Unfolds

A Neat NYTimes Piece takes a look at the Seward Park library, a red-brick and stone palazzo on East Broadway at Jefferson Street that underwent a two-year, $6.3 million renovation.

A series of business like reports, dating back 95 years, reveal much about the moral perspectives of the librarians, whose impressions occasionally betray a note of condescension or worse but for the most part are filled with compassion and amused delight.