Journalist Renowned for his Coverage of Fracking Discusses His Book, Which Is Nominated For Prestigious NYPL Award. By ANGELA MONTEFINISE When veter...
MIDTOWN — The sun would shine underground in a newly released design of a newer, smaller Donnell Library. The library branch, closed since 2009,...
NEW YORK — A long overdue book has finally been returned to the New York Public Library – 55 years late. The Daily News ( ) says the biog...
The New York Public Library's flagship building on Fifth Avenue is undergoing a $300 million renovation, courtesy of the London-based architect Foster...
In preparation for Marcus Samuelsson discussing his memoir on Monday, and Danny Meyer joining writers Ian Frazier, Karen Russell and Molly O'Neill to discuss lunch on Tuesday, we hosted a Macaroni and Cheese cook-off!
On Wednesday night at the New York Public Library in Midtown Manhattan, Henry Rollins and Damien Echols had a 90-minute conversation about life in hell.
NEW YORK — A new exhibition is hailing the fashion sense of Katharine Hepburn, whose trademark khakis and open-collar shirts were decidedly unco...
The New York Public Library's Schwarzman Building, sandwiched between the lions on 5th Avenue and Bryant Park, sits on a deep pit of knowledge. The st...
By Matt Knutzen, Geospatial Librarian - The New York Public Library One hundred years ago, a building-sized elephant stood across the street from the...
Vito spotlights the passionate, dedicated and fierce-yet-gentle activist who help found organizations such as ACT UP, exposed negative stereotypes of homosexuals in mass-market films in his legendary book The Celluloid Closet and fought for government action during the AIDS crisis.
Google has not killed the library and ebooks won't do it either. The biggest threat to the public library in American culture is limited hours.
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.
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...
New York Public Library's Stereogranimator Lets You Make GIFs Out Of 19th Century Stereographs
What is a photograph if not an invitation to step, however hesitantly, however briefly, into another time?
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...
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...
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...
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.
by H. Jack Martin, Assistant Director for Public Programs/Lifelong Learning for Children, Teens and Families, The New York Public Library Who's dea...
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.
For one night, quiet is a rare commodity at the New York Public Library as Anti-Prom takes over the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building.
How did the Cold War play out in Mexico? For Seth Fein, who is giving a free lecture at The New York Public Library tomorrow evening, much of the story can be understood in the production of a 1947 John Ford movie.
It's not every day that a former national security advisor recognizes you, taps you on the shoulder and apologizes for not returning your calls. But that's exactly what happened to journalist Shane Harris.
The Author's Note explains that I went scuba diving in abandoned marble quarries in Vermont, and wondered where all the marble had gone. That's the truth.
