Oh, to have been a fly on the wall of the Rose Main Reading Room at Manhattan’s New York Public Library (NYPL) early on May 28, 2014. At two in the morning, one of the ceiling’s gilded-plaster ...

The New York Public Library's Rose Main Reading Room will remain closed for the next six months for inspection and repairs after a plaster rosette fell from its ceiling, library officials said Monday.

ST. PETERSBURG The Reading Room is doing so many things right that I'm a little dubious I can ram it into 25 inches of copy, so strap in and let's go. My first impressions have been known to be ...