• Academy of Mt. St. Vincent library
• Aguilar Free Library (est.1886)
• Aldine Club
• American Bible Society
• American Bible Union
• American Congregational Union
• American Ethnological Society
  American Ethnological Society
  The American Ethnological Society is the oldest professional anthropological association in the United States.- History of the American Ethnological Society :...
  
  
• American and Foreign Bible Society
• American Geographical and Statistical Society
  American Geographical Society
  The American Geographical Society is an organization of professional geographers, founded in 1851 in New York City. Most fellows of the society are Americans, but among them have always been a significant number of fellows from around the world...
  
  
• American Institute (est.1828)
• American Institute of Mining Engineers Library
• American Literary Association
• American Museum of Natural History library
• American Numismatic and Archaeological Society
• American Seaman's Friend Society
• American Society of Civil Engineers
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Anglo-African Reading Room, Prince St. (est.1859)
• Apprentices and Demilt Library, General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York
  General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York
  -Founding History:The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York, was founded on November 17, 1785, by 22 men who gathered in Walter Heyer's public-house on Pine Street in Lower Manhattan. The aims of the General Society were to provide cultural, educational and social...
  
  
• Aschenbroedel Verein Library
• Association of the Bar of the City of New York
• Astor Library
• William H. Atree's circulating library

• Bacon Literary Association
• Bancroft Institute
• Samuel Berrian's circulating library
• Bowery Circulating Library; Caleb Bartlett
• Boys' Free Reading Room
• Broome Street Free Library

• Hocquet Caritat
  Hocquet Caritat
  Louis Alexis Hocquet de Caritat was a French-born bookseller and publisher in New York in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He operated a rental library and a reading room located in 1802 at "City-Hotel, Fenelon's Head, Broad-Way." He served as the "authorized distributor of Minerva Press...
  
  's circulating library
• Cathedral Free Circulating Library
• Catholic Club Library
• Children's library
• City Library
• Clinton Place Female Seminary
• College of Pharmacy of City of New York
• College of Physicians and Surgeons
• College of St. Francis Xavier
• College of Veterinary Surgeons Library
• College Settlement Library
• James Collins' circulating library
• Colored Home and Hospital Library
• Colored Orphan Asylum Library
• Columbia College
• Cooper Institute
• Courtland-Street Library; William Stodart

• De Witt Memorial Free Library

• Ecelectic Medical College Library
• Episcopal Historical Society
• Episcopal Theological Seminary
• Equitable Life Assurance Social Law Library

• Five Points Mission
• Francis' circulating library
• Franklin Library; Mr. Lockwood
• Free Academy
• Free Circulating Library for the Blind

• Gaelic Society
• Genealogical and Biograpical Society Library
• General Theological Seminary Library
• German Hospital and Dispensary Library
• A.T. Goodrich's circulating library
• Grammar School no.21, Holbrook Library
• Grolier Club
  Grolier Club
  The Grolier Club is a private club and society of bibliophiles in New York City. Founded in January 1884, it is the oldest existing bibliophilic club in North America. The club is named after Jean Grolier de Servières, Viscount d'Aguisy, Treasurer General of France, whose library was famous; his...
  
   (est.1884)

• Harlem Law Library
• Harlem Library
• Health Department library
• Helmich & Co.'s German circulating library
• Horsfall's French circulating library
• House of Detention for Witnesses library
• House of Refuge

• I.O. of O.F. Library
• Institute for the Deaf and Dumb
• Institution for the Blind
• Irving Literary Union
• Italian Free Reading-Room and Library

• Juvenile Asylum

• Adolph Kirsten's German library

• La Salle Academy library
• Lenox Library
  Lenox Library
  Lenox Library may refer to:*Lenox Library *A former library now part of the New York Public Library...
  
   (est.1871)
• Liter. Geselleschaft of Morrisania library
• Lorraine library
• Lyceum of Natural History

• Maimonides Library Association
• Manhattan College Library
• Maritime Exchange library
• Masonic Library
• Mechanical Engineers Library
• Mechanics' Institute (est.1830)
• Medical College and Hospital for Women library
• Mercantile Library Association (est.1820)
• Merchants' and Clerks' Library Association
• Metropolis Law School library
• Metropolitan Medical College
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
  Metropolitan Museum of Art
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the...
  
   library
• Military Service Inst. library
• Minerva circulating library; W.B. Gilley
• John Montgomery's circulating library
• Mott Memorial Medical and Surg. library
• E. M. Murden's Circulating Library and Dramatic Repository

• New-York Athenaeum (est.1824)
• New York City Library
• New York City Lunatic Asylum
• New York Free Circulating Library
• New York Historical Society
• New York Hospital
• New York Law Institute Library
• New York Law School library
• New York Medical College
  New York Medical College
  New York Medical College, aka New York Med or NYMC, is a private graduate health sciences university based in Westchester County, New York, a suburb of New York City and a part of the New York Metropolitan Area...
  
  
• New York Normal College library
• New York Port Society Library
• New York Public Library
  New York Public Library
  The New York Public Library is the largest public library in North America and is one of the United States' most significant research libraries...
  
   (est.1895)
• New-York Sacred Music Society (est.1823)
• New York Society Library
  New York Society Library
  The New York Society Library is the oldest cultural institution in New York City. It was founded in 1754 by the New York Society as a subscription library. During the time when New York was the capital of the United States, it was the de facto Library of Congress. Until the establishment of the...
  
  
• New York State Colonization Society, Omacatl Society

• Odd Fellows' Library
• Olivet Library
• Joseph Osborn's circulating library

• Parthenon Circulating Library and Reading Room; S.C. Schenk
• Peck Memorial Library
• Players' Club
  The Players (club)
  The Players, frequently referred to as the Players Club, is a social club founded in New York City by the noted 19th-century Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth, who purchased an 1847 mansion located at 16 Gramercy Park. During his lifetime, he reserved an upper floor for his home, turning the rest of...
  
   library
• Post grad. med. school and hospital library
• G.B. Powell's Book Store and Circulating Library, 134 Bowery
• Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions
• Printers' Free Library (est.1823)
• Prison Association library
• Produce Exchange library
• Public School, 14th Ward
• Public School (20th Ward) Library

• William Radde's German circulating library
• Railroad Men's Building library
• Riverside Free Library
• Rutgers Female Institute

• St. Agnes' Free Library
• St. Barnabas' Free Reading Room
• St. George's Free Circulating Library
• St. John's College library
• St. Luke's Hospital
• St. Mark's Memorial Chapel, free library
• Seamen's library, Pike St.
• Seamen's Friend Society Library
• Spingler Institute (est.1849), Union Square
• John Stagner's circulating library

• Teacher's College, Bryson Library
• Trow Directory library

• Union Theological Seminary
  Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
  Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York is a preeminent independent graduate school of theology, located in Manhattan between Claremont Avenue and Broadway, 120th to 122nd Streets. The seminary was founded in 1836 under the Presbyterian Church, and is affiliated with nearby Columbia...
  
  
• University Club library
• University of the City of New York
• University Settlement library (est.1892)

• Webster Free Circulating Library (est.1894)
• Washington Heights Free Library, Amsterdam Ave.
• Washington Institute
• Westermann's German circulating library
• T. Whybrew's circulating library
• Helen Williams' circulating library
• Woman's Library, no.19 Clinton Place
• Women's Free Reading-Room and Library, no.16 Clinton Place
• Women's Medical College of New York
• Workingmen's Free Reading-Room and Library

• Young Men's Christian Association
  YMCA of Greater New York
  Not to be confused with the YMHA, the YWHA or the 92nd Street Y.The YMCA of Greater New York is a community service organization that promotes positive values through programs that build spirit, mind and body. The YMCA is welcoming to all New Yorkers, with a focus on the City’s youth. No one is...
  
  
• Young Men's Christian Union
• YWCA library (est.1870)

Further reading

• E. Porter Belden. "Literature, Science, and Taste." New York, past, present, and future: comprising a history of the city of New York, a description of its present condition, and an estimate of its future increase. NY: Putnam, 1849
• Libraries in New York City. Norton's Literary and Educational Register for 1854.
• "New York (City): Free Circulating Libraries." American annual cyclopaedia and register of important events of the year 1886. NY: Appleton & Co., 1889
• "Libraries and Reading Rooms." King's handbook of New York City, 2nd ed. 1893.
• "Libraries of New York." James Grant Wilson. The memorial history of the City of New-York: from its first settlement to the year 1892, Volume 4. New York History Co., 1893
• Statistics of New York Libraries for 1894. State Library Bulletin, June 1895
• "Libraries in New York City." Public Libraries 1:7, Nov. 1896
• "Libraries of the City of New York." Libraries of Greater New York. NY: New York Library Club, 1902
• Hedbavny, L. "Some Leisure-Time Organizations in New York City, 1830-1870: Clubs, Lyceums, and Libraries." Master's thesis, New York University, 1952.
• Harold Augenbraum. New York's Oldest Public Libraries. RBM 1 no2 (2000), 145-60
• T. Glynn. Books in the public sphere: New York libraries and the culture-building enterprise (dissertation). Auburn University, NY.

External links

• Princeton University. Davies Project. American Libraries before 1876.
• New York Public Library. Photo of Aguilar Free Circulating Library East Broadway, Reference Room
• New York Public Library. Photo of New York Free Circulating Library, Branch no. 1, 1899