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Direct Me NYC 1786: A History of City Directories in the United States and...
New York Public Library's Direct Me NYC 1940 project recently digitized a selection of New York City 1940 telephone directories, in order to help patrons online search the 1940 census. Before the...
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Novedades de Junio 2012: El verano se avecina y el día del padre casi está ¡a...
El día del padre se celebra en el mes de junio en Estados Unidos al igual que en muchos otros países del mundo. Vamos a celebrar a papá en su día especial y a la vez dar la bienvenida a un verano...
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NYPLarcade Asks: What Are You Playing?
This weekend, I'm planning to revisit the strange, haunting world of Dear Esther, which recently added Mac support to its Steam release. So far, the tone reminds me of Amnesia: The Dark Descent. In Max...
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That Bacchanale Rag
"That Bacchanal Rag" Layers on layers of references that could not fit into a caption: The Passing Show of 1912 established the topical nature of Broadway revues. The authors, George Bronson-Howard and...
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Morning, Excellent and Fair: William Styron in the Village
William Styron, like many Greenwich Village writers, came from somewhere else, in this case North Carolina. June 11 is his birthday and he spent his early writing career living at 45 Greenwich Avenue....
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The Glen Bishop Reading List
She's not really his girlfriend. He's not really her boyfriend. She says she doesn't like him like that and he says he thinks of her as his little sister, but smarter. But she still sometimes tells...
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June Reader's Den: 11/22/63 Week Two
The '60s have been a wellspring of creative inspiration lately, from Mad Men to X-Men: First Class to Motown-inspired singing sensations such as Adele, Duffy and Amy Winehouse. In the article "1962" in...
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Celebration of "Memoirs: Penned and Spoken"
For eight weeks a group has gathered at the St. George Library for a class called, "Memoirs: Penned and Spoken." They have exercised their writing skills, reflecting back on their lives and...
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World Refugee Day 2012
In 1951 the U.N. Convention Relating to the Status of Refugeesdefined who is a refugee, their rights, and the legal obligations of governments. On the 50th anniversary of that historic convention, the...
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Find New York Times Bestsellers at NYPL - June 10th, 2012
Please help PROTECT YOUR BRANCH nypl.org/speakout It takes just seconds to sign a letter urging elected officials to reverse the harshest cut to The New York Public Library in its history. For the...
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Drawing From Life Experience: Lessons Learned
Mulberry Street Library was very excited to receive a grant from Lifetime Arts this year to participate in their Creative Aging program. Lifetime Arts is an organization devoted to enriching the lives...
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New Plant Patent Color Images at SIBL: Through June 5, 2012
Here are scans of the color plates of U.S. Plant Patents received at SIBL for the weeks of May 22, 29 and June, 2012. These follow from the earlier Plant Patent plates posted for the weeks of May 1, 8...
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Baseball Books for Kids
Whether you're a loyal fan of the Bronx Bombers or believing in the Amazin' Mets, New York is a great place for baseball. With the season well underway, and a second Subway Series around the corner,...
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Lower East Side Heritage Film Series: the Eighties, Part 2: Jarmusch's...
Permanent Vacation opens with a moving crowd of New Yorkers, still dressed '70s groovy. It might be a camera trick, but no one appears to be rushing. The music is slow, diffuse horn and bells. We meet...
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Looking for Something Lost: Mark Van Doren in the Village
Mark Van Doren edited and published An Anthology of World Poetry in 1929. Amazingly, this enabled him to buy the house at 393 Bleecker Street. Van Doren was a poet himself and a playwright and a...
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The New York City Historical GIS Project
In 2010, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded the Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division of the New York Public Library a three year grant, the New York City Historical...
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What's Waldo Reading? Summer Reading 2012
What are your summer plans this year? Are you leaving the city for an exotic destination? Or is your family having a stay-cation. Either way, I hope that you will be participating in the Library's...
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This Is Your Brain @ the Library
The month of May brought with it the end of the TV series House, M.D. as well as the publication of the book Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow. In the series...
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The British (and Irish) Boys of Summer: A Summer Reading List inspired by One...
I started summer 2012 seeing One Direction, not once but TWICE in concert! Let me just say this: they were AWESOME! I could go on and on (and on, just ask my friends) about my favorite four British...
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At the Ball, That's All: J. Leubrie Hill
The exhibition, The Great American Revue, focuses on Broadway revue series, 1907–1938. But, they were not the only shows on Broadway. During those three decades, dozens of musical comedies by African...
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