Design
The Tiny, Tri-Lingual Library Hidden on New York's Lower East Side
A bite-sized bookshelf greets readers in English, Spanish and Chinese.
This bite-sized bookshelf has an amazing talent -- it can greet visitors in English, Spanish and Chinese, simultaneously.
It makes its home amidst the red-brick apartment buildings of Manhattan's Lower East Side. It's called "Word Play," and it's one of a dozen tiny libraries [map] to emerge this summer in Lower Manhattan as part of a campaign by the Architectural League of New York and the PEN World Voice Festival, in collaboration with the Little Free Libraries movement.