Honor Your Family & Friends: Dedicate a Chair or Table

Chair with personalized plaque in the Rose Main Reading Room

Plaque Inscription: "Beatrice Holtzman, Violin | Julie Holtzman, Piano | Making Music Together"

The chairs and tables in the Rose Main Reading Room have stories to tell:

IN CELEBRATION OF LIBRARIANS EVERYWHERE

IN MEMORY OF ANDREW HEISKELL

IN HONOR OF KHALIL G. MUHAMMAD FOR SERVICE TO THE SCHOMBURG

Are you celebrating a wedding or a milestone birthday? Do you want to recognize a business? Are you looking to honor the memory of a loved one? You have a unique opportunity to dedicate a chair or table in the Library’s beautiful and iconic Rose Main Reading Room or the new Midtown Manhattan branch, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, opening in 2020.

With a tax-deductible gift of $2,500, you can dedicate a chair plaque in the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library. For placement in the Rose Main Reading Room, you can customize a chair plaque for $5,000 and a table plaque for $50,000. Make a Rose Main Reading Room gift or Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library gift yourself or create a fundraising campaign to share with family and friends.

Your contribution will support The New York Public Library as it provides free resources to millions of visitors of all ages.

If you have any questions, please contact the Conservators team at 212.930.0670 or conservators@nypl.org.

Each brass plaque is 5" long by 2" high with black engraved type. Up to 3 lines of text are permitted with up to 24 characters per line (including spaces).