New York's Quirkiest Archives, Bookstores and Libraries

Big Apple? More like book apple.

by samanthachong

12 Places

New York, New York

Mysterious Bookshop

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

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New York, New York

The Grolier Club

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.

Allison

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New York, New York

New York Society Library

New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.

New York, New York

Chancellor Robert R Livingston Masonic Library

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

New York, New York

Albertine

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

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New York, New York

New York Academy of Medicine Rare Book Library

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

EricGrundhauser

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New York, New York

Brazenhead Books

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

karpantschof

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New York, New York

Venetian Room

This lavish room at NYC's French Embassy is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

Kerry Wolfe

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St. Petersburg, Florida

Brooklyn Art Library

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

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Brooklyn, New York

Interference Archive

Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.

Oliver Hong

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Brooklyn, New York

Lesbian Herstory Archives

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

AaronNetsky

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Brooklyn, New York

Reanimation Library

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

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