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The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission has voted to designate two Beaux-Arts style rooms in the main library branch as interior landmarks.
Even before Norman Foster presented his firm's scheme in late December to alter radically the New York Public Library's main branch, controversy swirled among scholars about plans to change Carrère & Hastings' 1897 Beaux-Arts masterpiece at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue.
