Ryan writes:\”Here\’s a great article from the NYT about the original Astor library building in New York, now housing the Public Theater, in the bowels of which I\’ve heard that Christopher Walken can be seen gliding from light to cone of dusty light during the summer months.
The writer includes some wonderful recounting of the crochety library staff, who complained about the patrons, who \”read excellent books,\” said the original librarian, Joseph Green Cogswell, who went on: \”except the young fry, who employ all the hours they are out of school in reading the trashy, as Scott, Cooper, Dickens, Punch and The Illustrated News.\”
I\’d love to see something like this, perhaps in more detail, about the Cooper Union and its library, which are right up the street.
Anyone know of something?
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