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New York University's Fales Library and Special Collections is located on the third floor of the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library at 70 Washington Square South (off of Washington Square Park) between LaGuardia Place and the Schwartz Plaza, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It houses nearly 200,000 volumes, and of archive and manuscript materials. It contains the Fales Collection of Rare Books and manuscripts in English and American literature,[1]New York Times, RARE BOOKS GET NEW N.Y.U. HOME; Library for Growing Fales Collection Opens Today the Downtown Collection,[2] Fales Library Is NYU’s Archival Oz the Food and Cookery Collection,[3]The Fales Library and the general Special Collections from the NYU Libraries.[4]The Fales Library
The Downtown Collection documents the Lower Manhattan art, performance, film, and literary landscape from 1975 to the present. In addition to thousands of published books and magazines, the Downtown Collection includes extensive holdings of archival and manuscript material, film and video, original artwork, theatrical models, and other realia.[5] Fales Library Is NYU’s Archival Oz Archival holdings range from the personal papers of writers such as Dennis Cooper, David Wojnarowicz,[6]The David Wojnarowicz Papers Richard Foreman and Lynne Tillman to the papers of publishing ventures such as High Risk Books and Between C & D to the archives of organizations such as Creative Time and Mabou Mines and the GoNightclubbing.
The Fales Library preserves manuscripts and original editions of books that are rare or important not only because of their texts, but also because of their value as artifacts. The Downtown Collection archive is rich in late 1970s and 1980s punk rock and no wave post-punk videos, drawings, films, photos, interviews, posters, correspondences and other ephemera.[7]The Fales Library
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