New York Public Library and 42nd Street - 1910

The 42nd Street, looking east from Sixth Avenue. Bryant Park and the New York Public Library (under construction) are on the right. East River is seen in the distance. Photograph by Thaddeus Wilkerson, copyright 1910. Original title: Forty Second Street, looking east from the Times Tower, New York. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

The Bryant Park was created in 1847 as Reservoir Square. In 1884, it was renamed Bryant Park after the poet and New York Evening Post editor William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878).

The New York Public Library building, facing 5th Avenue, opened on May 23, 1911.

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New York Public Library and 42nd Street - 1910