Located in the shadow of the 6 train station at busy Westchester Square, the Huntington Free Library and Reading Room is a throwback to a time when the neighborhood was known as the Town of Westchester, located in Westchester County.
The historic Bronx building opened in 1891 as a privately endowed library named for railroad magnate Collis P. Huntington, who helped fund its completion.
“It was built several years before the first branch of the New York Public Library was built in the Bronx,” Angel Hernandez, president of the library and a noted Bronx historian, said.
The library specializes in Bronx history. It was closed for three years
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