Access to NYU Law’s Lieberman Main Reading Room will continue to operate through the Vanderbilt Hall entrance.Says report
The NYU School of Law’s Library is closed until further notice after it flooded early Tuesday morning, according to students who spoke with WSN and a schoolwide email from its dean.
The flooding on the library’s lower level closed down the Furman Hall entrance at 245 Sullivan St., but the Vanderbilt Hall entrance on 40 Washington Square South — which leads to the Lieberman Main Reading Room, which was unaffected — remains open to the law school community. WSN was anonymously informed that the library flooded with “several inches of water” around Monday overnight or Tuesday morning, although reporters were not allowed to enter the building to verify this information.
“There are some spaces dedicated for specific clinics or student groups — so if you want to access those spaces, you have to be affiliated with those organizations,” second-year law student Gemyla Huang said in an interview with WSN. “Within the law buildings, which are only two buildings, the Law Library is the primary space where students can study.”
Huang said she was told by a friend that the flooding was a result of a burst pipe. She added that the lower level of the library is used as an underpass to walk to and from Vanderbilt and Furman halls, and the closure led to more inconvenience as students needed to go outside and around the building instead.
The email advised students to visit the NYU Libraries website for additional study spaces and referenced the university’s “Ask a Librarian” page for online services.
The incident follows two other floods in NYU dorms caused by pipe bursts this school year, including one that affected several Othmer Hall floors in November and a University Hall suite in October.
NYU Law did not allow WSN to enter the law school building.
