Posts by Ian Brand

Strolling through East Harlem, one can still find visual references to Latin jazz legends of the past.

Home to successive waves of immigrants over the centuries, the neighborhood today percolates with the cultural energy brought by Puerto Ricans in the 20th century, and from more recent diasporas.

A member of the 2019 NYPL Best Poetry Books Committee recalls the work of the late W.S. Merwin, a social poet who shied away from the public square, whose poetry posed something of a puzzle.

In anticipation of this weekend's open house, here's how library service started and evolved in the Washington Heights community.