I grew upon n.y. And lived in manhattan twenty years before I moved to Los Angeles. I am now eighty years old. I lived on the west side and spent many Saturday's and Sunday's at the metropolitan and the museum of modern art, but after reading this wonderful descriptions of what what was in the NYPL I am so sad I never went in to the library which I walked past thousands of times. If I had seen this book or even suspected what was to be found there I would have lived between the stacks. I recommend this as required reading. Thanks for the wonderful visit. And now I know what I must reread for the next twenty years..... Frank Jacobi