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Inside the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library in Midtown Manhattan is a special space dedicated to teens where they study, learn to embroider, make music or simply talk, laugh and socialize.
Before the Teen Center opened in July 2021, there were no public spaces solely for teens in the midtown area besides the teen center located in the basement of The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, the New York Public Library’s main branch, but it was the size of one of the study rooms at the new Teen Center.
“The Teen Center hopes to be a space that encourages young people to thrive in ways that are meaningful to them,” said Ricci Yuhico, managing librarian for young adult services at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library. “Literacy is not just reading. It’s becoming literate in yourself and literate in the ways that you want to grow and continue becoming.”
Kids commute from every borough and even New Jersey to use the center. Many go to school close by and use the center each day after school to do homework, hangout with friends and even apply for college or jobs. Some college freshmen also use the space to study.
Inside the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library in Midtown Manhattan is a special space dedicated to teens where they study, learn to embroider, make music or simply talk, laugh and socialize.
Before the Teen Center opened in July 2021, there were no public spaces solely for teens in the midtown area besides the teen center located in the basement of The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, the New York Public Library’s main branch, but it was the size of one of the study rooms at the new Teen Center.
“The Teen Center hopes to be a space that encourages young people to thrive in ways that are meaningful to them,” said Ricci Yuhico, managing librarian for young adult services at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library. “Literacy is not just reading. It’s becoming literate in yourself and literate in the ways that you want to grow and continue becoming.”
Kids commute from every borough and even New Jersey to use the center. Many go to school close by and use the center each day after school to do homework, hangout with friends and even apply for college or jobs. Some college freshmen also use the space to study.
Been hearing this BS since the 1960s. I say within 3 months either a large fight or a shooting will take place.
If Niarchos, or his estate, fund something, they can name it anything they want. If you don't like it, you can return the funding to its source, and not have a youth center. The fact that the thing is operated by a private foundation (rather than uncaring and self-serving "public sector") is actually the only reassuring thing about this project, and the only relative promise that it may get continually weeded of juvenile delinquency.
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