Posts from 67th Street Library

"Black&" is a series of online discussions led by dedicated NYPL Staff members centered around different aspects of Black identity.

This list of over 100 books celebrates notable achievements by Black people in science, technology engineering, the arts, math and medicine.

El legado de Sylvia Rivera: Una latina considerada como una de las madres del movimiento LGBTQ+ moderno. Una mujer transgénero con una feroz e incansable voluntad por defender sus derechos y los de su comunidad.

Bicycles figure prominently in children’s literature, capturing snapshots of different phases of childhood. Below are some great titles featuring the noble bicycle!

On an upper floor of The New York Public Library-67th Street Branch, community members, scientists, and dietitians once again gathered together for a round table discussion on nutrition and obesity issues faced by our neighborhood.

The brand new Community Conversations initiative at The New York Public Library introduces a space for discussion on local topics that matter most to you.

Looking for a something new to read? Check out these 2017 YA books!

Check out one of Manhattan's silent oases, a library space devoted to total quiet. Volunteer Roberto-Cristoforo describes how he came to monitor the room and garden at 67th Street Library.

How to learn Italian online with Mango Languages or in person at The New York Public Library.

The last two years have been great for Hindi cinema—and the library offers a great selection of titles that go beyond Bollywood cliché.

Hollywood has officially gone YA, and blockbusters that started as young-adult fiction abound. So, we asked our team of expert librarians for their wishlists: What’s a YA book you’d like to see turned into a movie, and whom would you cast in the leading role?

... because it's time for some binge-reading. Start some series that you might want to race through the same way you raced through Making a Murderer.

This Veterans’ Day, when we honor the contributions of the men and women in the U.S. Armed Forces, we’re thinking about books told from the perspective of soldiers, pilots, medical personnel, and everyone who’s served in combat.

Reading a book aloud to a child is one of life’s sweetest pleasures, and children sometimes ask to repeat the experience with the same book over and over. And over. And over.

What’s making us happy in the realms of TV, cooking, art and design, libraries, and online thingamabobs, and then happinesses that defy categorization.

We asked our library staff members to tell us what’s turning their pages. Here’s the first installment, covering podcasts, music, and—of course—books.

Lewis Carroll’s creative masterpiece turns 150 this fall, and NYPL is celebrating with a major exhibition—and, of course, with book recommendations.

Our NYPL experts named other books, written from the first-person perspective, that aren’t really about the narrators.

We asked our experts: “What’s your recommendation for a long, dense, serious beach book?”