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The Premise of Meaning: Archibald MacLeish in the Village
Archibald MacLeish was the Librarian of Congress from 1939-1944 as well as an accomplished poet and dramatist. Not surprisingly, he was a huge advocate for libraries. read more
View ArticleLower East Side Heritage Film Series, Season 2, Part 8: Young Filmmakers and...
Don't Shhhh me!.... NOT this time.We are about to conclude the second season of our Lower East Side Heritage Film Series and for the closer we are ALL TALK.read more
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Extra! Extra! Read All About the Newsboys Strike of 1899
Newsboys., Digital ID 79788, New York Public LibraryThis year the musical Newsies got nominated for eight Tony Awards. The popularity of the Disney Broadway show based on the Disney film has led many...
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2011 NYC Book Awards
Did you know that there were more than 150 books about New York City published last year? Given this prodigious output, the New York Society Library, in hosting the New York City Book Awards, makes a...
View ArticleLower East Side Heritage Film Series: the Eighties, Part 2: Jarmusch's...
Permanent Vacationopens 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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Fifth Avenue From Start to Finish: The 1911 Equivalent of Google Street View
One of the treasures of the New York Public Library is the photographic publication "Fifth Avenue, New York, From Start to Finish." Luckily for us, this rare and beautiful collection of photographs has...
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Lower East Side Heritage Film Series: the Eighties, Part 3 - The Way it Is or...
Pretend you’re just outside Tompkins Square Park. Enter the park on Avenue A, at 8th Street. Take the windy path through the park towards Avenue B. Okay, now sniff. What do you smell?You smell dogs.The...
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How Did the Pigeon Get to NYC?
"Pigeon on New York Public Library." Digital ID ps_ar_65, New York Public LibraryOne can scarcely think of any park in NYC — or any city, really — without envisioning the ubiquitous pigeon there as...
View ArticleThe Sweetness of Twisted Apples: Sherwood Anderson in the Village
Sherwood Anderson is special to Hudson Park because I believe, I hope, that he used the branch. After all, he lived right across the street at 12 St. Luke's Place.read more
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Learn About Astor Place with New York City Explorers
Fall is a wonderful time to be in New York City. Take advantage of the cooler climate by exploring all NYC has to offer! Saturday September 15, the Ottendorfer Library will proudly present the New York...
View ArticleFiction Atlas: The Lower East Side in Children's Fiction and Picture Books
Where in the world are you reading about? Fiction finds its settings in all corners of the world (and some places only imagined in our minds) but there's something special about fiction set in a...
View ArticleFiction Atlas: Harlem in Children's Fiction and Picture Books
Where in the world are you reading about? Fiction finds its settings in all corners of the world (and some places only imagined in our minds) but there's something special about fiction set in a...
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Catching the 7 Line: The International Express to NYPL!
7 Train by Scott Beale on FlickrApril is Immigrant Heritage Month. In New York City, April 17th to 24th is Immigrant Heritage Week. In honor of both celebrations of Immigrant Heritage, this blog will...
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The Art Underfoot: NYC Manhole Covers
Art can be found in many places: on the walls at home, in museums and galleries. We walk through New York City and cities around the world looking at buildings, parks and street life, rarely looking...
View ArticleThe Woolworth Building: The Cathedral of Commerce
April 24th sees the one hundredth anniversary of the opening of the Woolworth Building, at 233 Broadway. In 1913 the Woolworth Building was the tallest inhabited building in the world, and would remain...
View ArticleModern-Day Slavery: Stories about Human Sex Trafficking and Comfort Women
During World War II, when the Japanese invaded and occupied Shanghai, Nanjing and other coastal cities of eastern China, they looted, intimidated, and massacred millions of people to prove their...
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A Public Health Career in Two Years: Community Health
What is Public Health?If you've ever had a vaccination, assumed the water from your tap is safe, taken your baby to a clinic for a checkup, expected the restaurant you eat in to be clean and safe, been...
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Lower East Side Heritage Film Series, Season 3, Part 1: Rebecca Lepkoff in...
Photography is a sort of homecoming — to twist a line from poet Paul Celan— and the woman who has captured so much of the Lower East Side through her lens, and those same photographs, is coming back...
View ArticleClassroom Connections: 'New York, Then & Now' Immigration to Washington...
The story of immigration to America is a rich tapestry whose opposing threads, oddly for how much they reject each other's reality, hang together as one. It outrages us and gives us hope in...
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Your Village, Your Story: Jefferson Market's Greenwich Village Oral History...
Map of the Greenwich Village section of New York City (1961)On Thursday, November 14, twelve volunteer interviewers sat in a circle in the first floor auditorium at Jefferson Market Library having a...
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