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The New York Public Library

    One of New York's most beautiful and important 1is 2 danger. The New York public Library in the heart, of the city may  3close its door.

    The library is in 4 part of the city. But there is grass and trees around it, and some chairs for people to sit 5. Even in crowded New York, its rooms are large and high. Here, a 6sit and 7 in comfort. The library has 8 thirty million books and drawings. Some of them very important. Every New Yorker can see and 9 the library books free.

    But the cost of running the library has risen fast in recent years and the library doesn't have 10 to go on with its work. In the past, it was open every evening and also on Saturday and Sundays. Now it is closed at that time to save money.