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The Reading Room

In 1935, during the depths of the Depression, the Bryant Park Open-Air Reading Room was established in the backyard of the New York Public Library to engage the minds of the jobless thousands.

The Bryant Park Corporation recreated the Bryant Park Reading Room, modeled after the original.

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room: Take a book and sit in the same table with someone else. Look around from time to time. Will you start talking?If not...