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Art in the Stacks: Part One

by Vincenzo Rutigliano, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Art & Architecture
February 22, 2010

Those who use the resources of the Art & Architecture Collection come in splendid variety: old and young, sophisticated and naive, happily curious and relentlessly searching. We love it, for where else could you be asked "just what is that building in back of that Madonna" followed by a search for more of Grandmama's old Limoge china (oh, those porcelain marks - so confusing!).

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Where Is St. Marks? Investigating Place Names in the East Village

by Billy Parrott, Managing Librarian, Mid-Manhattan Library, Art and Picture Collections
January 19, 2010

It is 8th Street, but from Third Avenue to Avenue A it is called St. Marks Place and is named for St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, which is not even on 8th Street, or St. Marks Place, but at the intersection of 10th Street, Second Avenue, and Stuyvesant Street. The land there has been a site of Christian worship since 1660. The history of St. Marks Place doesn’t go back that far, but a surprising amount of history has happened on these four blocks.

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