New York Public Library Tour | Free Guided Tour & Hidden Rooms (NYC)
Take a free guided tour inside the New York Public Library (Main Branch) in Manhattan, NYC 📚✨ This video is part of my 3-day New York City trip, and Day 2 turned into a long and unforgettable walking tour full of surprises. By pure luck, I arrived at the NYPL at the perfect moment and joined the start of an official free guided tour. Our guide showed us the famous public halls and also led us into restricted reading rooms normally available only to New York residents with library cards or researchers. In this New York Public Library tour, you’ll see: iconic architecture and historic interiors hidden and closed reading rooms antique furniture and legendary staircases book storage and delivery systems exhibitions and rare books If you’re planning a trip to New York City, love libraries, books, architecture, or enjoy walking tours in Manhattan, this video will help you discover one of NYC’s most beautiful and educational places. This video is part of my 3-day trip to New York City. Day 2 turned out to be long and full of surprises, and I decided to tell it as a series of short stories: -Pier walk (Part 1) -New York Public Library tour (this video) -Sunset walk on the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges (Part 3) -Ferry ride to the Statue of Liberty (Part 4) -A subway adventure with delays, wrong turns, and extra walking (Part 5) -Little Italy in the heart of NYC (Part 6) Today’s video is a real stroke of luck — I accidentally walked into the New York Public Library at exactly the right moment and joined the beginning of a free guided tour. Our guide showed us the grand public halls and also led us into several reading rooms usually closed to visitors, accessible only to New York residents with library cards or researchers. With the guide, we were able to quietly step inside, admire the interiors, and hear fascinating stories about the library’s history and inner workings. In this video, you’ll see: stunning architecture and historic interiors, rare and restricted rooms, beautiful furniture and staircases, exhibitions, book storage systems, and the unique atmosphere of one of the most iconic libraries in the world. If you love New York City, books, architecture, or hidden places, this unusual library room tour is for you ❤️📖 ⏱ Chapters 02:53 Library entrance 03:17 Second library building with roof access 04:25 Old-style phone booths (nostalgia!) 06:40 Wedding in the library 07:10 Map Room 07:40 How to join a free library tour 10:55 Rare historical collections (Founding Fathers era) 12:35 Entering a restricted reading room 14:10 Epic antique furniture 16:00 Book storage system 17:17 “Hogwarts-style” staircases 17:31 English listening: unique books in the collection 18:00 The New Yorker magazine corridor 19:35 Shelley Room (author of Frankenstein) 20:35 Question for viewers: what is this circle? 21:30 Rotunda Hall — listening to English speech 23:00 Triptych about the history of book printing 24:00 Book delivery system using small rail cars 24:23 Pink Room (featured in Spider-Man) 25:00 The first printed Bible 26:00 Librarian’s workspace 27:15 Homeless people in the library 28:00 18th-century vacuum mail system 30:00 Polonsky Exhibition: Library Treasures 34:24 Library building across the street 35:00 Free services available in US libraries 🔖 #NewYorkPublicLibrary #NYC #NewYorkCity #LibraryTour #WalkingTour #HiddenNYC #ArchitectureLovers #BookLovers #Manhattan
Take a free guided tour inside the New York Public Library (Main Branch) in Manhattan, NYC 📚✨ This video is part of my 3-day New York City trip, and Day 2 turned into a long and unforgettable walking tour full of surprises. By pure luck, I arrived at the NYPL at the perfect moment and joined the start of an official free guided tour. Our guide showed us the famous public halls and also led us into restricted reading rooms normally available only to New York residents with library cards or researchers. In this New York Public Library tour, you’ll see: iconic architecture and historic interiors hidden and closed reading rooms antique furniture and legendary staircases book storage and delivery systems exhibitions and rare books If you’re planning a trip to New York City, love libraries, books, architecture, or enjoy walking tours in Manhattan, this video will help you discover one of NYC’s most beautiful and educational places. This video is part of my 3-day trip to New York City. Day 2 turned out to be long and full of surprises, and I decided to tell it as a series of short stories: -Pier walk (Part 1) -New York Public Library tour (this video) -Sunset walk on the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges (Part 3) -Ferry ride to the Statue of Liberty (Part 4) -A subway adventure with delays, wrong turns, and extra walking (Part 5) -Little Italy in the heart of NYC (Part 6) Today’s video is a real stroke of luck — I accidentally walked into the New York Public Library at exactly the right moment and joined the beginning of a free guided tour. Our guide showed us the grand public halls and also led us into several reading rooms usually closed to visitors, accessible only to New York residents with library cards or researchers. With the guide, we were able to quietly step inside, admire the interiors, and hear fascinating stories about the library’s history and inner workings. In this video, you’ll see: stunning architecture and historic interiors, rare and restricted rooms, beautiful furniture and staircases, exhibitions, book storage systems, and the unique atmosphere of one of the most iconic libraries in the world. If you love New York City, books, architecture, or hidden places, this unusual library room tour is for you ❤️📖 ⏱ Chapters 02:53 Library entrance 03:17 Second library building with roof access 04:25 Old-style phone booths (nostalgia!) 06:40 Wedding in the library 07:10 Map Room 07:40 How to join a free library tour 10:55 Rare historical collections (Founding Fathers era) 12:35 Entering a restricted reading room 14:10 Epic antique furniture 16:00 Book storage system 17:17 “Hogwarts-style” staircases 17:31 English listening: unique books in the collection 18:00 The New Yorker magazine corridor 19:35 Shelley Room (author of Frankenstein) 20:35 Question for viewers: what is this circle? 21:30 Rotunda Hall — listening to English speech 23:00 Triptych about the history of book printing 24:00 Book delivery system using small rail cars 24:23 Pink Room (featured in Spider-Man) 25:00 The first printed Bible 26:00 Librarian’s workspace 27:15 Homeless people in the library 28:00 18th-century vacuum mail system 30:00 Polonsky Exhibition: Library Treasures 34:24 Library building across the street 35:00 Free services available in US libraries 🔖 #NewYorkPublicLibrary #NYC #NewYorkCity #LibraryTour #WalkingTour #HiddenNYC #ArchitectureLovers #BookLovers #Manhattan