Our team advised the New York Public Library on a number of projects, including the 53rd Street Branch, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Midtown Campus Renovation.

 

53rd Street Branch: This interior fit out of a new 28,000 SF flagship library branch was developed as an interactive learning center within a core and shell hotel/condo development.

 

Schomburg Center: The expansion of the historic Schomburg Center in Harlem included interior and exterior renovations of the three-building library facility and research center, which is now 75,000 SF. Design and construction was completed while maintaining library operations and keeping the branch open to the public.

 

Midtown Campus Renovation: Cumming Group advised the NYPL on the procurement of a construction manager for the Mecanoo/BBB-designed renovation of library’s Mid-Manhattan Branch, party of a larger renovation program that includes the iconic Stephen A. Schwarzman building.