The 2012 Manhattan Cocktail Classic Wrap-Up: Bigger! Better! Boozier!
Like a plague of locusts or an army of Huns, the cocktailian hordes descended on New York City on May 11 -- bar owners, mixologists, distillers, publi...
Like a plague of locusts or an army of Huns, the cocktailian hordes descended on New York City on May 11 -- bar owners, mixologists, distillers, publi...
The New York Public Library | Posted 04.11.2012
As interest grows around next steps for our libraries, I wanted to address some of the questions we have received. But first, I want to state up front: our absolute priority is to preserve the integrity of the Library and its collections.
The Huffington Post | Amber Genuske | Posted 04.06.2012
Imagine being able to walk through Henry David Thoreau's hand-drawn map of Walden Pond. With the New York Public Library's recently started digitizati...
HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 03.01.2012
Jillian Maldonado is a 29-year-old student at the Mid-Manhattan Adult Learning Center and an Avon sales representative who earns $300 a week. On most ...
Posted 02.29.2012
By Gianna Palmer NEW YORK, Feb 29 (Reuters) - About 10 Occupy Wall Street demonstrators were arrested in New York City on Wednesday during prot...
The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 02.22.2012
TVs at electronic retailers may provide customers with a bit of entertainment while they shop, but the images on the screens at one Best Buy had a cus...
The Huffington Post | Posted 02.21.2012
WASHINGTON -- You were probably wondering when the New York Public Library would get around to making a website where you can create 3D and animated G...
The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 03.27.2012
New York Public Library's Stereogranimator Lets You Make GIFs Out Of 19th Century Stereographs
The New York Public Library | Posted 03.27.2012
What is a photograph if not an invitation to step, however hesitantly, however briefly, into another time?
The Huffington Post | Rebecca Searles | Posted 01.12.2012
Today's giant telescopes offer amazing views of distant worlds. But it doesn't take modern technology costing millions to capture the awesome beauty a...
Huffington Post | Lucas Kavner | Posted 12.12.2011
Anthony Marx, who has been president of New York Public Library since July 2011, was sentenced Friday on charges stemming from an earlier DWI incident...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 12.03.2011
WASHINGTON -- Although the nation's capital has a grand history of swanky hotels and restaurants, quick turnover has always been a reality. Unlike som...
HuffingtonPost.com | Gregory Beyer | Posted 11.22.2011
This article is part of our ongoing series on Libraries In Crisis. On a recent afternoon Anthony W. Marx walked slowly around a bank of computers a...
Carla Leitao | Posted 01.09.2012
Though information has always changed the structure of its perceiving bodies, there are more opportunities for frequent reconfigurations of our bodies of knowledge.
Posted 01.09.2012
Gay Talese was thirsty Monday night, and he let the bartender at the New York Public Library know it. "Keep pouring," the writer, dressed in a well...
Posted 01.08.2012
New York Public Library President, Anthony Marx, was arrested on drunk driving charges on Sunday after police officials say he "sideswiped" a parked c...
Carla Leitao | Posted 11.27.2011
Libraries are located at a unique intersection of spatial design. They are spaces that store, articulate and distribute formats (media), which are vessels of information.
The New York Public Library | Posted 11.16.2011
By Vicky Gan, Intern, Strategic Planning Office, The New York Public Library Crowdsourcing is a loaded term. Since its 2006 debut, the word has burge...
The New York Public Library | Posted 10.03.2011
Almost half of the world's Internet users are on Facebook. But how many are "likable?" For anyone with something to sell, this is a particularly tricky question.
Posted 09.20.2011
Jefferson County Public Library officials say they cannot control what adults choose to view, according to reports by 9News and the Associated Press. ...
The New York Public Library | Posted 09.13.2011
by H. Jack Martin, Assistant Director for Public Programs/Lifelong Learning for Children, Teens and Families, The New York Public Library Who's dea...
The Atlantic | Posted 08.23.2011
With all this change -- not to mention a possible $40 million budget cut looming -- it would be no surprise if the library was floundering like the mu...
The New York Public Library | Posted 08.22.2011
World fairs are the cutting edge of where ideas that have become material are showcased. These exhibitions present to the world the future innovations that are going to affect and shape the lives of the participants.
The New York Public Library | Posted 08.20.2011
For one night, quiet is a rare commodity at the New York Public Library as Anti-Prom takes over the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building.
nytimes.com | Posted 08.16.2011
When the Harvard psychologist and psychedelic explorer Timothy Leary first met the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in 1960, he welcomed Ginsberg’s particip...
Tony Sachs | Posted 05.21.2012