A Tribeca space is being converted into what organizers describe as a public reading room for the Jeffrey Epstein court files — all 3.5 million pages of them, printed, bound, and shelved as 3,437 individual volumes.

The project, reported by Curbed, will occupy a ground-floor venue in lower Manhattan. Beyond the document archive, the space will include additional exhibits, though specifics on layout and opening date were limited at the time of publication.

The 3,437-volume figure alone implies a library footprint of considerable size. Standard archival volumes of comparable page density typically run three to four inches on the spine; racked end to end, the collection would stretch somewhere north of 900 linear feet of shelving.

Tribeca ground-floor retail and gallery space currently lists in the $80-to-$180-per-square-foot annual range, depending on block and condition — a not-insignificant overhead for a reading room with no confirmed ticket price.

The files, of course, have been freely available online since their court-ordered release. The organizers did not appear to address that in the materials reviewed by Curbed.