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Restoration Project at the NYPL Reveals Map Room's Vivid Palette

Room 117, known as the map room at the New York Public Library, is scheduled to reopen Thursday after a $5 million restoration project that has brought back the Beaux Arts luster of the area that is home to some of the rarest maps in the world.
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