The Astor Library was a free public library in the East Village, Manhattan, developed primarily through the collaboration of New York City merchant John Jacob Astor and New England educator and biblio
The Astor Library Building in 1854
John Jacob Astor, an engraving based on an 1864 portrait by Alonzo Chappell
John Jacob Astor, a marble bust owned by the NYPL
Joseph Cogswell, an 1853 bust by Eugène Lequesne owned by the NYPL
The Astor Library Building is a theater and former library building at 425 Lafayette Street in the NoHo neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, New York, US. It was built in three stages between 1
The building's facade seen from the northwest
The reading room when the building was in use as a library
The central pavilion, completed as part of the first expansion