I've actually walked down that street a number of times. The quotes are wonderful. You want to give yourself time to read them, and make sure you're walking from 5th Avenue (which is where the main branch of the NY Public Library is) toward Park Avenue so you'll be facing the same way as the quotes.

On the topic of New York, I spent yesterday at the Brooklyn Book Festival, which is the largest free literary event in NY. There were hundreds of authors, hundreds of book publishers and related vendors, and dozens of programs, including a whole series of presentations featuring YA authors. I attended a wonderful presentation sponsored by PEN about Banned Books, called, The Words Your Child Cannot Read. It featured Libba Bray, Matt De La Pena, Roby Harris and Christopher Myers  reading excerpts from banned books and discussing the topic. Libba Bray stole the show with her reading of And Tango Makes Three. On Saturday, they had a separate Children's Day program, geared for children ages 2-11. Being in Brooklyn, there were many people with tattoos, including a young woman who had a typewriter tattooed on the back of her left shoulder. In any case, I highly recommend it for next year if you're not afraid of a trip to Brooklyn.

http://www.brooklynbookfestival.org/​