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Oct 26, 2016 · “New York City has scored its first major preservation success under its 18-month old landmarks law with the dramatic announcement of Joseph Papp’s plans to purchase the old Astor Library on Lafayette Street as the Shakespeare Festival’s new home.
May 30, 2017 · Founded in 1881, HIAS has rescued more than 4,500,000 men, women, and children, including members of almost every Jewish family in America. Tens of thousands of these refugees and migrants were sheltered and fed in this building before they entered the mainstream of life in this great nation.
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In his search for a home for new American theater, producer Joseph Papp saved a historic building in “ruins” from demolition. It was once the Astor Library, which became the first free public...
Jul 28, 2010 · The 1854 Astor Library. Photo NYPL Collection. When John Jacob Astor died in 1848, he was the wealthiest man in America. In his will he left the astonishing amount of $400,000 for the establishment of a public library.
The next occupant of the building, the Hebrew Immigrant Aids Society (HIAS) New York Times, January 12, 1920 First floor, North Building (Immigrant processing), circa 1940.
Originally the City's first major library broadly accessible to the public, the Astor collection was combined with the Tilden Trust and Lenox Library in 1912 to form the nucleus of the New York Public Library.
