On the Upper East Side, a Rare Book Library With 10,000 Titles on Food, Cooking and Nutrition

Appropriately, Mt. Sinai Hospital and the Museum of the City of New York flank the New York Academy of Medicine on the Upper East Side. Founded by a group of reform-minded physicians in 1847, the Academy is dedicated to improving the health of city-dwellers and these days it’s mostly focused on healthy aging and eliminating health disparities among vulnerable populations.

But on the third floor something else is going on: it’s home to the Academy’s rare book collection and of the 32,000 rare books in the wood-paneled library, nearly 10,000 of them are related to food, cooking and nutrition. 

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