Oh, to have been a fly on the wall of the Rose Main Reading Room at Manhattan’s New York Public Library (NYPL) early on May 28, 2014. At two in the morning, one of the ceiling’s gilded-plaster ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) --Two majestic interiors of New York City's main public library are reopening next month following more than two years of repairs and conservation. The Rose Main Reading ...

The iconic Rose Main Reading Room at the New York Public Library‘s 103-year-old 42nd Street flagship will remain closed for six months after a plaster rosette fell from the ceiling last month ...

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A proposal to landmark the New York Public Library’s Rose Main Reading Room and Bill Blass Catalogue Room at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building in Midtown received resounding support at a ...

To say that the ceiling of the Rose Main Reading Room, at the New York Public Library’s main ... rosette is there—as well as older images of the library’s history. There’s a picture ...

(Courtesy of the New York Public Library) The New York Public Library knows we’re still not over the Rose Reading Room’s six-month ... It asks people to post photos of themselves online ...

Beaux-Arts style rooms in the New York Public Library (NYPL) at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. If approved by the City Council, the Rose Main Reading and Bill Blass Catalog Rooms, both recently ...

Book lovers are losing the New York Public Library’s iconic Rose Main Reading Room for about two weeks. The NYPL is shuttering the room after a large piece of plaster fell from the ceiling ...

Back at the end of May, the New York Public Library's centerpiece, the Rose Reading Room, was closed after a foot-long "chunk of plaster" (one of the rosettes bordering the ceiling) fell.