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Crochet Made Simple: How Books Written for a Younger Audience Can be the Best...
I tried several crocheting books with what appeared to be simple enough patterns for a beginner, but I couldn’t get it. I’m a patient person when it comes to learning new things, but I found the...
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The Life of a Poet: Hart Crane in the Village
Hart Crane lived for a time at 45 Grove Street (he more famously had an apartment with a view of the Brooklyn Bridge) and his birthday is July 21. Crane was a poet in the Rimbaud fashion. His life was...
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Panjiva - A New Global Sourcing Tool
Do you own a business? Work as designer, distributer, or manage a retail boutique? Maybe you're a buyer for a large store? You need to find reliable suppliers for your business. Panjiva, a new database...
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Free Job Training in Woodworking
Brooklyn Workforce Innovations helps jobless and working poor New Yorkers establish careers in sectors that offer good wages and opportunities for advancement. Currently BWI offers free job training...
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The Summer Olympics: History and Resources
The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially called The Games of the XXX Olympiad kicks off on July 27th in London, United Kingdom! For about two weeks, the world will be watching their top athletes compete...
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Summer Reading at Morris Park
Once again the dog days of summer are here, and what better way to cool off than at your local library. Our summer reading kickoff is a memory where a good time was had by all. We are really fortunate...
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Read It, Make It, Write It! Eat More of What You Love
I had the honor of meeting Marlene Koch, author of the cookbook: Eat More of What You Love, at the Book Expo America event held this June at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City. Marlene was all...
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A List of Lists: July 2012
Visit NYPL's BiblioCommons for these lists and many more. You can also create your own and share them with us in the comments! See below for some interesting staff picks from the past month, on topics...
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Reader's Den: The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton - Week 3
For our penultimate discussion, we will be taking a look at Chapters 9 - 12 of G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare, which is part of both Mystery Summer and the New York Public...
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Meet the Artists: Alastair Noble and Marie-Christine Katz
On view at Mulberry Street Library through August 27th is the multi-artist collaboration called MAPnificent. MAPnificent features paintings, works on paper and sculpture that reflect the artists'...
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On the Trivial Pursuit of Useless Information
I don't have a very good memory of the fiction books I read and enjoyed as a child. What I do remember is an obsession with encyclopedias, almanacs, atlases, the Guinness book, trivia, and general...
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Find New York Times Bestsellers at NYPL - July 29th, 2012
For the week of July 29, 2012 we have hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, and children's picture books. If you have an iPhone, iPad or Android phone, there is a free app! Use it with your library...
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"Compact and Ingenious": Lunchboxes, Dinner Pails, and Other Ways We've...
This post was written by former Lunch Hour NYC intern Caitlin Dover. Caitlin is a writer and editor based in New York City; she recently received her master's in material culture from the Bard Graduate...
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Free Job Training for Production Assistants
Motivated New Yorkers who want to start a career in TV and film production, but have never had the opportunity, now have a proven way to get into the business. The "Made in NY" Production Assistant...
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Booktalking "All the Right Stuff" by Walter Dean Myers
All the Right Stuff by Walter Dean Myers, 2012 Paul DuPree figures that working in a soup kitchen over the summer isn't a bad gig, especially since he gets to mentor a kid on Friday mornings. Little...
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How to Return eBooks Early
When you check out an ebook from the library, you get to keep it for the full loan period (7, 14 or 21 days) before the file is no longer accessible to you. Which means you will never get an overdue...
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Teen Summer Reading Spotlight: "The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin" by Josh Berk
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, does it still make a sound? If somebody insults Will Halpin and he isn’t reading that person’s lips, does it still count as an insult? In The Dark...
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From Tokyo to New York, In Search of History
When the question arrived in our inbox at Ask NYPL, I noticed the email address ended in ".jp" Mariko had heard that the NYPL held the records of the Waldorf-Astoria. She asked if there was any...
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Free Programs at New Dorp Library: August 2012
Summer is almost over, come into the library and take advantage of all the great programs and events we will be offering! Check out our special event this month. Our Art Gallery / Carnival on August...
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Musical of the Month: A Biography of George M. Cohan
A guest post by Professor William Everett. His statue stands in Times Square, the only one located at the "Crossroads of the World." This legendary showman did it all—actor, writer, composer, producer,...
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