Go to Grand Army Plaza...........best Library in all of NYC.....at least it was the last time I was there!!!!
I don't know when it occurred, perhaps it was when they installed a mini-Starbucks in the lobby, but for some reason, I eventually lost my enthusiasm for browsing through its book collection.
I started utilizing the main branch of the New York system-in midtown-when I was matriculating at Brooklyn College.
Surprisingly, I think that BC's recently constructed library probably has the most comprehensive, voluminous collection out of all the branches-at least, the ones that I've been to-in NYC.