'Terrorism doesn't win': New York attack on 31 of October 2017 failed to stop Halloween parade!
Argosy -New York City's oldest independent bookstore


In Greek mythology, the Argo was the ship on which Jason and the Argonauts sailed to retrieve the Golden Fleece.

In 1991 in obituary New York Times wrote about Cohen: "Mr. Cohen's acquaintance with President Roosevelt began in 1935, when Mr. Cohen stumbled across about 30 children's books from the 1880's, signed by Sarah Delano, the President's mother. He sent the books to the President, establishing a correspondence that lasted several years. In the early 1960's, Jacqueline Kennedy asked Mr. Cohen to supply books for the White House Americana Library, and he also established libraries for the University of Texas and the University of Kansas, among others. He donated a marine research library to Israel and several thousand Hebrew books to Bar-Ilan University in Israel".

Judith Lowry, the first born, is in charge of first editions. Naomi Hample, the middle sister, runs the autographs department. And Adina Cohen, the youngest, presides over the map and art gallery.
In October 2012 the Argosy suffered extensive damage during Hurricane Sandy, when bricks dislodged from the 32nd story of the adjacent building and crashed through the store’s roof. The resulting flood affected the top two floors and destroyed many historical artifacts, including acts of congress signed by Thomas Jefferson (...)

Three years ago New Yorker published an article " The Book Refuge Three sisters keep a family business about the store going" and a year ago CBS did a story about Argosy Bookstore.
Flag Exchange at Federal Hall

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Historical American Flags (image from Wikipedia) |


Ziegler came across
his first flag near Nashville, Tennessee, where he lives. “It was hanging from
a barn and had been there so long that the white stripes had rotted away and
only the red ones remained,” he says. “I thought it was amazing, the way it
looked, and then I couldn’t help myself. I just started noticing ragged flags
everywhere.” (...)
Rose Main Reading Room, New York Public Library

If the New York Public Library branches were colleges, the Schwarzman Building would be Harvard or Yale.
If the New York Public Library is a tree, then the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on 41st Street and Fifth Avenue is its trunk.

Since its opening in 1911, the Reading Room has served as a valuable resource for researchers, scholars, and writers.
The emblematic New York novelist E.L. Doctorow conducted research at the Library for his best-known work, Ragtime, the story of three New York families from the turn of the 20th century to World War I. A far-reaching work of historical fiction, the novel interweaves the stories of actual figures of the 1900s, including Evelyn Nesbit, J.P. Morgan, and Harry Houdini.

The Room is named for Deborah, Jonathan F. P., Samuel Priest, and Adam R. Rose, children of the family that donated money to restore the room in the 1990s.
"The Roses are one of the oldest and most successful real-estate families in New York. Founded in the Bronx in the 1920’s by brothers Samuel B. and David Rose, their flagship developing company, Rose Associates, manages more than 31,000 apartments in New York, including Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, and owns some of the city’s most sought-after real estate, such as the Madison Belvedere. The Roses have made a lot of money and given a lot away: quietly, but not entirely anonymously. These are the Roses of the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the Natural History Museum, of Rose Hall and the Rose Building and Rose Rehearsal Studio at

The room has been featured in several feature films, including 1984's "Ghostbusters" and "The Day After Tomorrow" (2004). The New York Public Library featured in "The Day After Tomorrow" is entirely the product of Hollywood technical wizardly. Books have never been burned in the Rose Main Reading Room!

All 102 ceiling rosettes have been carefully tested, first with a gentle tap, then a firmer tug, and eventually a 300-plus–pound weight. Every surface has been inspected and refreshed. The $12 million restoration included securing 900 plaster elements on the ceiling with steel cables. Over the course of more than two years, an army of architects, structural engineers, antique restorers, mural painters, and craftsmen carefully worked on the vast space, about the size of two city blocks.
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Library officials created an innovative approach for storing material in a new stack. Dewey order was scrapped in favor of storing books by size, a system that will increase the repository’s capacity by 40 percent.

Now books are organized into nine size categories, and staff members use book-sizing templates to determine where they will reside. Staff members pull and place the requested material in one of the electric railroad’s twenty-four red cars that then make the five-minute trip to the circulation desks on the first and third floors of the main building.
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