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Instant Shakespeare
William Shakespeare: Portraits. Image ID: TH-50303In keeping with its motto of “Shakespeare for Everyone,” the Instant Shakespeare Company will be organizing readings throughout library branches this...
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Why We Love Beverly Cleary
Beverly Cleary turns 100 today, and to celebrate we asked some of our library staff to tell us why they love her. We picked a few of our favorite answers to share with you. (We also made a list of our...
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Podcast #107: Robert A. Caro and Frank Rich on Power and Corruption
Subscribe on iTunes.Robert A. Caro is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for his books The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate and The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, the...
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation: Hiring Our Heroes on April 21
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation will present 2016 Hiring Our Heroes - New York, NY on April 21, 2016 at 69th Regiment Lexington Avenue Armory, 68 Lexington Avenue & 26th Street, New York, NY...
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Twelve Hour Fashion Show on June 3: Seeking Contestants!
At Jefferson Market Library, we are looking for eight contestants for an all-day fashion design extravaganza...Image ID: 5231288Twelve Hour Fashion Show! Friday, June 3, 2016Contestants will arrive at...
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NYPL's 2016 Finalists for the NYC Neighborhood Library Awards
Four of our branches (Aguilar, Fort Washington, Inwood, and Morrisania) have been selected from hundreds of libraries in the city as finalists for the NYC Neighborhood Library Awards. Nearly 19,000...
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The Material Realities of Slavery in Early New York
In colonial New York, as now, certain New Yorkers amassed extreme concentrations of wealth. Unlike today, these extremes of wealth often derive from colossal accumulations of landed property, in the...
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Ep. 25 "A Wonderful Curiosity About People" | Library Stories
As a personal financial counselor for the Library’s Money Matters program, Steve Poppel encounters people from all walks of life. As a former historian, he’s is driven by a curiosity about people and...
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Interpreters Needed for the April 19 Presidential Primary Election
The Presidential Primary Election is on Tuesday, April 19, 2016.Language interpreters and other positions are available if you are interested in working the polls.At the moment, Mahattan needs...
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Passover Resources, from the Rose Family Seder Books to the Seder Plate
From the beautiful Rose Family Seder Books to preparing a seder plate, the Library has something for everyone.Learn about the holiday of Passover through the magnificent artwork now on display in the...
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NYPLarcade: Game Design Books at the Library
Whether you are a middle school student making your first game for the Games For Change Student Challenge, a high school student competing in the National STEM Video Game Challenge, or an adult...
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Six Picture Books for #Hamilkids
Kids of all ages are obsessed with Hamilton, the smash-hit musical inspired by Ron Chernow’s biography of the ten-dollar Founding Father without a father.So, for the very youngest fans: picture books...
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Bros, Shakespeare, and Nudity... Not All at the Same Time: The Librarian Is...
Welcome to The Librarian is In, the New York Public Library's podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. Doug Reside from NYPL’s Library for the Performing Arts joins Gwen and Frank to talk...
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20 Years of Books Researched at the Science, Industry and Business Library
"In the crowded, contested spaces of New York City, privilege is defined by where one sits: a seat in a classroom at a selective school, a courtside seat at a Knicks game, a table at a fashionable...
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Men, Sex, and the Literary Novel
Sujet Libre. Image ID: 1220758In a recent New York Times article, author John Colapinto was featured and a discussion ensued about the lost art of the "male-centric literary sex novel." The discussion...
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Seward Park 100 Years Ago: Esther Johnston's Lower East Side
One hundred years ago this coming May Day, a woman from a small town in Indiana named Esther Johnston began her first day of work at the Seward Park Library on the Lower East Side—her term at Seward...
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Quiz: Can you define these obscure words?
On this day in 1828, the first edition of Noah Webster's An American Dictionary of the English Language was published, marking the start of a long history of people flipping through its pages to find...
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10 Books To Make You Think About the Way You Think
Reflection on our own beliefs and motives, decisions and reactions, helps us grow. Here are a few titles from the arenas of Human and Social Behavior that provide insight into our psyches. Presence:...
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Predicting the Future
Many books from Science to Science Fiction foretell the future and serve as cautionary tales that demand we think about our actions and the way we live today. Here are a few of those thought-provoking...
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Shakespearean Characters We Love to Hate
During the month-long celebration of Shakespeare, we wanted to pay homage to the Bard’s most loathsome characters: his villains, schemers, whiners, and all-around bad actors.So, we asked our lit...
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