New York in New York County, New York — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

Library Walk

Photographed By Larry Gertner, June 29, 2015

1. Library Walk plaque

Park Avenue and East 41st Street.

Inscription. Click to hear the inscription.

A celebration of the world’s great literature, brought to you by the Grand Central Partnership and the New York Public Library.
Sculptor: Gregg Lefevre.
1998

Erected 1998 by New York Public Library.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Arts, Letters, Music. A significant historical year for this entry is 1998.

Location. 40° 45.092′ N, 73° 58.698′ W. Marker is in New York, New York, in New York County. Marker is at the intersection of East 41st Street and Park Avenue, on the right when traveling east on East 41st Street. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: New York NY 10017, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Ptl. Thomas Schimenti, NYPD (a few steps from this marker); 101 Park Avenue (within shouting distance of this marker); Park Avenue Viaduct (within shouting distance of this marker); Grand Central Terminal (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); The Vanderbilt Eagle (about 400 feet away); The Chrysler Building (about 700 feet away); 67 Park Avenue

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2. Library Walk

The Park Avenue starting point.

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(about 700 feet away); The Bronxville Eagle (about 800 feet away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in New York.

More about this marker. This, and 44 other plaques, are set into the pavement on either side of East 41st Street between Park and Fifth Avenues.

Also see . . . Library Way. Grand Central Partnership entry (Submitted on October 26, 2020, by Larry Gertner of New York, New York.)

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3. Library Walk, Plaque 1

Gu Cheng - "Forever Parted: Graveyard"

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4. Library Walk, Plaque 2

Francis Bacon - "Of Studies"

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5. Library Walk, Plaque 3

Willa Cather - "O Pioneers!"

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6. Library Walk, Plaque 4

Dylan Thomas - "In My Craft of Sullen Art"

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7. Library Walk, Plaque 5

Albert Camus - "The Plague"

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8. Library Walk, Plaque 6

Muriel Rukeyser - "The Speed of Darkness"

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9. Library Walk Plaque 7

William Carlos Williams - "Poem"

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10. Library Walk, Plaque 8

Lewis Carroll - "Through the Looking Glass: And What Alice Found There"

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11. Library Walk, Plaque 9

Robert Pinsky - "Library Street"

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12. Library Walk, Plaque 10

Tom Stoppard - "Night and Day"

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13. Library Walk, Plaque 11

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - "The Day Is Done"

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14. Library Walk, Plaque 12

Mark Twain - "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"

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15. Library Walk, Plaque 13

Alfred Kazin - "New York Jew"

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16. Library Walk, Plaque 14

Henry David Thoreau - "Walden"

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17. Library Walk, Plaque 15

Wallace Stevens - "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"

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18. Library Walk, Plaque 16

Garson Kanin - "Born Yesterday"

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Isak Dinesen - "Shadows on the Grass"

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20. Library Walk, Plaque 18

Richard Eberhart - "Reading Room, The New York Public Library"

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21. Library Walk, Plaque 19

Ernest Hemingway - "Old Newsman Writes"

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22. Library Walk, Plaque 20

Langston Hughes - "Words Like Freedom"

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23. Library Walk, Plaque 21

Marianne Moore - "THE MIND IS AN ENCHANTING THING"

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24. Library Walk, Plaque 22

Samuel Beckett - "Waiting for Godot"

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25. Library Walk, Plaque 23

Gwendolyn Brooks - "Song of Winnie"

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26. Library Walk, Plaque 24

William Butler Yeats - "When Your Are Old"

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27. Library Walk, Plaque 25

John Milton - "Areopagitica"

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28. Library Walk, Plaque 26

Emily Dickinson - "1212"

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29. Library Walk, Plaque 27

Pablo Picasso - "Picasso on Art: A Selection of Views"

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30. Library Walk, Plaque 28

Lucille Clifton - "why some people be mad at me sometimes"

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31. Library Walk, Plaque 29

John Greenleaf Whittier - "Proem"

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Virginia Wolfe - "The Leaning Tower"

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33. Library Walk, Plaque 31

E.B. White - "Letter to James Thurber"

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Rene Descartes - "Discourse on the Method"

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John Ruskin - "Sesame and Lillies"

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Kate Chopin - "The Awakening"

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Thomas Jefferson - "Letter to Colonel Charles Yancy"

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Gertrude Stein - "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas"

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Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee - "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail"

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40. Library Walk, Plaque 38

Julia Alvarez - "33"

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Marcus Aurelius Antonius - "Meditations"

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Georges Braque - "Le Jour et La Nuit"

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Jorge Luis Borges - "Compass"

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44. Library Walk, Plaque 42

William Styron - "Writers at Work"

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Bohumil Hrabal - "Too Loud a Solitude"

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46. Library Walk, Plaque 44

Jose Marti - "On Oscar Wilde"

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47. Library Walk

Overview from the Park Avenue Viaduct.

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48. Library Walk

The Fifth Avenue end

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Photographed By Larry Gertner, November 5, 2020

49. The 42nd Street Main Library building

now the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

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