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After years of delay, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously to designate as interior landmarks two magnificent, Beaux-Arts style rooms in the New York Public Library (NYPL) at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. If approved by the City Council, the Rose Main Reading and Bill Blass Catalog Rooms, both recently restored, will join the building’s exterior, designated a landmark in 1967, and the library’s operatic entry halls and stairs, designated in 1974, to form a protected central sequence from the busy street to the serenity of the nearly two-block-long reading room on the third floor.