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New York Public Library’s Main Branch Revamp Continues To Inch Forward
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Date: Tuesday 13 August 2019, 12:00 AM
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The New York Public Library’s marble lions aren’t the only elements of the famed building that are about to get a makeover. A piece of a larger master plan to restore several areas and increase public space in the NYPL’s landmarked Fifth Avenue building (formally known as the Steven A. Schwarzman Building) has been approved by the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC). The $317 million master plan—announced in 2017 and developed by architecture firms Mecanoo and Beyer Blinder Belle—includes a new entrance at West 40th Street that’s intended to improve public access (it was approved by the LPC in March), and the restoration of several rooms. This week, the LPC voted to approve several aspects of the project’s South Court sections, including new door openings and glass partitions on the first floor, a connection between the service elevator vestibule to a new staff elevator lobby, a reconfigured staircase from the ground floor to the Celeste Auditorium, and demolition of interior partition walls on the first floor. The work, LPC commissioner Jeanne Lutfy said, “will help improve circulation and free access throughout the cellar and first floors in conjunction with the recently-approved 40th street entrance.” All commissioners voted in favor of these changes, except for Michael Goldblum, who expressed concern about an enclosure within the service elevator—a connector is glazed, while the enclosure itself is not.
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