New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (LPA)

Great place to do some laptop work with free wifi . There are large clean open tables, adjustable Aeron office chairs, and plenty of plugs. It's best on the 2nd floor. No mandatory coat/bag check.

Expansive collection of books on all types of performing arts . Great orchestra collection and they even have exhibits that are always changing!

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The Dance film archives are the BEST! Give yourself a treat and spend 2-3 hours viewing masterpieces! The library staff will 'wow' you with their expertise and suggestions.

Wonderful. You can screen Broadway plays! For free! I did a screening for my class and it was amazing. Love this place.

Go for the Sinatra exhibit and see how Ol Blue Eyes became the Chairman of the Board.

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A monument building, utterly vast, but be aware that the Rose Reading Room is currently closed to the public.

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best place to get on line with your laptop quite and clean also they have a great selection of DVD's to choose from !!

A great place to get work done: Aeron chairs, ample power plugs/wifi, excessive AC in the summer, and friendly people!

They often have fantastic exhibits . Good study spaces too.

Another one of the multitudes of hidden gems in NYC.

Clean areas with tables. Better crowd than other libraries .

If it's hot outside come in & take a look the NYPL has much to offer

Fastest computers out of all the Manhattan libraries . There are a lot of them and the printers always work.

Comfy Herman Miller chairs on 2nd floor!

Great place to study on the second floor

Check out the Sinatra Exhibit .

Sesame Street exhibit until Jan 2015! :)

One of the best archives of moderns music . Anywhere.

This is the perfect place for actors looking for plays to read for monologues, watch productions of plays, find sheet music ....

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Tourist tips: Look for the SSID 'NYPL' for free wifi in NYC.

A great study spot for anyone in the performing arts

Love that this is here. So key.

quiet place to catch your breath in between fashion shows

The Jerome Robbins Dance Division hosts one of the world's leading dance archives .

Great concerts

Staff was a bit unfriendly, but that has nothing to do with the amazingness of the library .

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Watch classic broadway shows on video in the special collections reading room .

The collections are great, but I find the people who work here to be incredibly unpleasant and awfully noisy

day 2 at the library today

Another day at the center of the universse

diesel music selection. RAID THAT!

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