an immigrants love of the library
This is such an interesting and nostalgic article, I had to post it in full, though it can also be found here . Books of the New World and the Old An immigrant comes to America--through the library . BY LUCETTE LAGNADO Friday, December 7, 2007 12:01 a.m. EST As a little girl newly arrived in America, I couldn't wait for the Saturday afternoons when my mother and I would board the subway near our home in Brooklyn for our weekly outing to the Donnell branch of the New York Public Library in midtown Manhattan. It was our favorite corner of New York. So I was sad when it was announced last month that the building housing the Donnell was being sold to a developer. Paul LeClerc, who heads the New York Public Library system, said that the property didn't measure up to its neighbors on tony West 53rd Street, a stone's throw from Fifth Avenue, on a block that houses one of the city's greatest attractions--the sleek, renovated Museum of Modern Art. Donnell--or some semblance of ...