#library walk

[kingsbridgelibraryteens]

Library Way, Library Walk, and the entrance of NYPL

(Walking down 41st Street in midtown Manhattan)

[mostlyuk]

The library walk in Manchester, UK (photo by​ Darby Sawchuk)

[charleylhasa]

LIBRARY WALK

Charley visits Library Way on East 41st Street between Fifth Avenue and Park Avenue leading to and from the New York Public Library. It consists of 96 bronze panels created by Greenwich Village sculptor Gregg LeFevre inset into the sidewalk featuring literary quotations chosen by US librarians. Midtown, Manhattan, NYC

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[thomrhine]

NYC - Library Walk - a good place to look down.

NYC – Library Walk – a good place to look down.

Library Walk

Walking in NYC can be fun and often leads you to find something different and new. Many of us are busy looking up, at our urban mountains,  but if you look down on East 41st Street between Madison and Fifth Avenues, you’ll find 96 bronze plaques embedded in the sidewalk. These blocks are dedicated to plaques that contain poetry, quotes and other pieces of literature. It probably…

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[yyz2nyc]

Library Walk

When walking from Grand Central Terminal to the main branch of The New York Public Library, I like to take 41st Street instead of the usual 42nd Street.  That way, I can get some inspiration from the quotes of famous writers and artists about reading, writing and literature.

Sometimes called Library Way, 41st Street between Park Avenue and 5th Avenue has bronze plaques embedded at regular intervals along the sidewalk.  96 in all.  Sculpted by Gregg LeFevre, the engaging designs make one pause to read the accompanying quotation.

Here are a few of my favorites:

Jerome Lawrence

Lucille Clifton

John Ruskin

José Marti

Gertrude Stein

Virginia Woolf

William Styron

E.B. White

René Descartes

Pablo Picasso

John Greenleaf Whittier

John Milton

Bohumil Hrabal

Kate Chopin

Thomas Jefferson

Gwendolyn Brooks

William Butler Yeats

Jorge Luis Borges

Georges Braque

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Julia Alvarez

Follow the bronze brick road...

[ucsdcomicbookclub]

Hey UCSD! Comic Book Club here! We're out right now on Library Walk, from now till 3pm. There are comics, manga, graphic novels, and a chance for you to get drawn as your own superhero(or villain for those who prefer to be magnificent bastards). So grin and bear with the terrible crowds and various assortment of face-seeking fliers and come check us out. Hope to see you there!

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WHEN I SMELL FOOD ON LIBRARY WALK