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The Picture Collection is open 8:00 am - 9:00 pm Monday-Thursday, 8:00 am - 8:00 pm Fridays, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Saturdays, and is closed on Sundays.

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Established in 1970, the Mid-Manhattan Library houses the largest circulating collections of The New York Public Library.

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Mid-day heat Jamaica. (1906). NYPL Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

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