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New York Public Library
The
New York Public Library
(
NYPL
) is a
public library
system in
New York City
. With nearly 53 million items, the New York Public Library is the second largest public library in the United States (behind the
Library of Congress
), and
fourth largest in the world
. It is an independently managed, nonprofit corporation operating with both private and public financing. The library has branches in the boroughs of
Manhattan
,
The Bronx
, and
Staten Island
, and affiliations with academic and professional libraries in the metropolitan area of
New York State
. The City of New York's other two boroughs,
Brooklyn
and
Queens
, are served by the
Brooklyn Public Library
and the
Queens Library
, respectively. The branch libraries are open to the general public and consist of
research libraries
and
circulating libraries
.
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