Jefferson Market Library (Gothic clock tower)
Photo: M.M.Dwyer · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
📚 Library · Manhattan
1 hours · Free · No reservation needed
- 🚇About 15 min by subway or carFrom Midtown · Getting there: Subway A/C/E/B/D/F/M to W 4 St, then a 3-minute walk
- 🍼Stroller-friendlyFlat surfaces — bring the stroller
- 🌳Lots of shadeRain-OK · Handles heat
- ⏱️Typical visit: 1 hoursBest seasons: Spring · Summer · Fall · Winter
An 1877 courthouse in Greenwich Village turned library, with a red-brick Gothic clock tower like a fairy-tale castle; the children's room downstairs has stained-glass windows, and the little garden next door is full of tulips in spring.
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