The weather outside is frightful, but Bryant Park can be so delightful. Let's meet at the New York Public Library this coming Saturday at 2:00pm. If it's warm enough we'll draw outside, if it's not, let's go upstairs into the Rose Reading Room to draw people and the thousands of books lining the formidable shelves.
A bit about the New York Public Library:
This specific branch is a Beaux-Arts building which has undergone a bunch of different name changes and was opened over 100 years ago in 1911. Planning for it started 10 years before that in 1901 when a bunch of rich guys got together to consolidate the various libraries of the city into a single system.
The result is what we New Yorkers currently have. We have the 2nd largest library system in the US (only to the Library of Congress) and the 3rd or 4th (depending on the year) largest library system in the world!
In fact, just across the street are multiple alternate branches that lots of us tend to forget exist.