Finally, refuge-wise, libraries are the ultimate “third place,” the urban sociologist Ray Oldenburg’s “sanctuaries beyond the realms of home and work.”

There is also a Sculpture Park, open to the public until January, which presents artworks such as Claes Oldenburg's "Fagend Study", a large cigarette butt.

Rauschenberg boasted of its success to friends Frank Stella and Claes Oldenburg, “and we were up and running,” Felsen says.