The exterior of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, part of the New York Public Library system. Credit: John Bartlestone/nypl.orgThe Stavros Niarchos Library, or SNL, the central circulating branch of the New York Public Library, has now reopened after a very difficult pandemic year that came just as the library was undergoing a complete refurbishment, renaming…
Completed in 2021 in New York, United States. Images by John Bartelstone, Max Touhey. The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) is New York’s new central circulating library. Built within the 1914 shell and steel frame of the.
As New York City enters its next chapter of recovery and renewal, it is critical that its social infrastructure parks, schools, public libraries and so on be as strong as possible. After more than a year of isolation, hardship and fear, we need places to gather and where learning and opportunity are readily and freely accessible.