Past Events
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Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM | Wednesday, July 17, 2024 - 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM | Wednesday, July 24, 2024 - 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM | Wednesday, July 31, 2024 - 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM | Special Event | Peluso Family Exhibition Gallery | open to the public | free of charge | drop inEscape the hustle and bustle of the city and step into history. Explore our gallery and marvel at the architectural wonders of our building.
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Sunday, July 7, 2024 - 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM | Sunday, July 14, 2024 - 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM | Special Event | Reference Room | open to the public | free of charge | drop inCelebrate our Library’s 270th anniversary! Join us for a special journey through history with our newly appointed docents. Explore the gallery and the architectural marvels of our building.
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Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM | Wednesday, July 17, 2024 - 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM | Wednesday, July 24, 2024 - 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM | Wednesday, July 31, 2024 - 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM | Special Event | Peluso Family Exhibition Gallery | open to the public | free of charge | drop inEscape the hustle and bustle of the city and step into history. Explore our gallery and marvel at the architectural wonders of our building.
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Sunday, July 7, 2024 - 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM | Sunday, July 14, 2024 - 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM | Special Event | Reference Room | open to the public | free of charge | drop inCelebrate our Library’s 270th anniversary! Join us for a special journey through history with our newly appointed docents. Explore the gallery and the architectural marvels of our building.
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Thursday, June 27, 2024 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | Livestream (online only) | open to the public | free of charge | registration requiredFrom the award-winning author of Night of the Living Rez, Morgan Talty’s debut novel, Fire Exit, is a masterful and unforgettable story of family, legacy, bloodlines, culture and inheritance, and what, if anything, we owe one another.
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Wednesday, June 26, 2024 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | open to the public | free of charge | registration requiredA woman leaves her coastal Greenland village to translate the works of a renowned Provençal poet and finds her life irrevocably changed. “One of the most charming amateur sleuths ever created” (Tess Gerritsen) dodges assassins and hunts for hidden treasure. In this one-of-a-kind event, bestselling authors Elizabeth Birkelund and Lorenzo Carcaterra discuss their latest fiction and the charms and challenges of their European settings.
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Wednesday, June 26, 2024 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | Livestream | open to the public | free of charge | registration requiredA woman leaves her coastal Greenland village to translate the works of a renowned Provençal poet and finds her life irrevocably changed. “One of the most charming amateur sleuths ever created” (Tess Gerritsen) dodges assassins and hunts for hidden treasure. In this one-of-a-kind event, bestselling authors Elizabeth Birkelund and Lorenzo Carcaterra discuss their latest fiction and the charms and challenges of their European settings.
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Wednesday, April 17, 2024 - 11:00 AM | Wednesday, May 8, 2024 - 11:00 AM | Wednesday, May 29, 2024 - 11:00 AM | Wednesday, June 26, 2024 - 11:00 AM | Reading Group | Whitridge Room | for members only | $100 for the four sessions/$25 per session | registration required“We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.” Henry James put these highly quotable lines into the mouth of the main character of “The Middle Years.” In this four-session seminar, we’ll read that tale and three others that James wrote about authors.
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Sunday, June 23, 2024 - 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM | Special Event | Reference Room | open to the public | free of charge | drop inCelebrate our Library’s 270th anniversary! Join us for a special journey through history with our newly appointed docents. Explore the gallery and the architectural marvels of our building.
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Saturday, June 22, 2024 - 7:00 PM | Performance | Members' Room | open to the public | $20 per person | registration requiredJuliet’s Nurse hits the road to leverage her eyewitness observations and correct the record on "the greatest love story ever told." Inspired by actress / Brooklyn Theater fire survivor Kate Claxton's historic lecture tour, NURSE is a comic meditation on love, death, aging, and teenagers.
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Tuesday, June 18, 2024 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | open to the public | free of charge | registration requiredWhat risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again? In this one-of-a-kind event, Roxana Robinson discusses her novel Leaving with Amanda Vaill.
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Tuesday, June 18, 2024 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | Livestream | open to the public | free of charge | registration requiredWhat risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again? In this one-of-a-kind event, Roxana Robinson discusses her novel Leaving with Amanda Vaill.
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Wednesday, May 15, 2024 - 11:00 AM | Wednesday, June 12, 2024 - 11:00 AM | Reading Group | Whitridge Room | for members and their guests | $50 for the two sessions | registration required2025 will see the hundredth anniversary of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Reading Merve Emre’s recent annotated edition, published by W. W. Norton, we will explore such themes as the aftermath of war; life in the modern city; depression and its treatment; and the possible lingering effects of the 1918 pandemic, all juxtaposed with perhaps the most memorable party in modern literature.
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Tuesday, June 11, 2024 - 3:30 PM | The Writing Life | Whitridge Room | for members only | free of charge | registration requiredWe’re all super busy, but writing is our calling. So how can we make sure to fit it in with everything else demanding our time? And why is it so worth it?!! Hear from Zibby Owens, bestselling author, bookstore owner, podcaster and publisher, about how she does and how her love of writing has fueled everything!!
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Thursday, June 6, 2024 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | open to the public | free of charge | registration requiredAn iconic writer’s lapidary memoir of a life spent pursuing a dream of artistic truth while evading the truth of her own gender identity, until, finally, she turned to face who she really was. In this one-of-a-kind event, Lucy Sante converses with Village Voice writer and Candy Darling biographer Cynthia Carr.
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Thursday, June 6, 2024 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | Livestream | open to the public | free of charge | registration recommendedAn iconic writer’s lapidary memoir of a life spent pursuing a dream of artistic truth while evading the truth of her own gender identity, until, finally, she turned to face who she really was. In this one-of-a-kind event, Lucy Sante converses with Village Voice writer and Candy Darling biographer Cynthia Carr.
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Sunday, January 7, 2024 - 1:30 PM to 5:00 PM | Sunday, February 4, 2024 - 1:30 PM to 5:00 PM | Sunday, March 3, 2024 - 1:30 PM to 5:00 PM | Sunday, April 7, 2024 - 1:30 PM to 5:00 PM | Sunday, May 5, 2024 - 1:30 PM to 5:00 PM | Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 1:30 PM to 5:00 PM | Reading Group | Whitridge Room | for members and their guests | free of charge | registration requiredWe gather monthly to read aloud a play by William Shakespeare.
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Saturday, June 1, 2024 - 2:00 PM | Performance | Members' Room | open to the public | free of charge | registration requiredThis all-ages musical follows Ruth, one of the thousands of Jewish refugee children given safe passage on the Kindertransport in the months leading up to World War II. As Ruth adjusts to life with her adoptive family, including her foster sister Elinor, she struggles to hold on to her connection to her musical father left behind in Nazi Germany. Ruth must ultimately find a way to reconcile past trauma with future hope -- a task that will only be possible through the power of musical expression.
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Wednesday, April 17, 2024 - 11:00 AM | Wednesday, May 8, 2024 - 11:00 AM | Wednesday, May 29, 2024 - 11:00 AM | Wednesday, June 26, 2024 - 11:00 AM | Reading Group | Whitridge Room | for members only | $100 for the four sessions/$25 per session | registration required“We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.” Henry James put these highly quotable lines into the mouth of the main character of “The Middle Years.” In this four-session seminar, we’ll read that tale and three others that James wrote about authors.
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Wednesday, May 22, 2024 - 6:00 PM | Special Event | Members' Room | Free of charge | Registration required
Award winners and participants are honored at a ceremony and reception, with writing advice and inspiration from the author judges.
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Wednesday, May 22, 2024 - 6:00 PM | Reception | Members' Room | Free of Charge | Registration Required
Award winners and participants are honored at a ceremony and reception, with writing advice and inspiration from the author judges.
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Wednesday, May 15, 2024 - 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM | Wednesday, May 22, 2024 - 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM | Special Event | Peluso Family Exhibition Gallery | open to the public | free of charge | drop inCelebrate our Library’s 270th anniversary! Join us in April for a special journey through history with our newly appointed docents. Explore the gallery and the architectural marvels of our building.
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Tuesday, May 21, 2024 - 3:30 PM | The Writing Life | Whitridge Room | for members only | free of charge | registration requiredKenneth R. Cobb, a 45-year veteran of the NYC Department of Records & Information Services, presents an illustrated review of Municipal Archives holdings including the mayoral collections, records pertaining to the administration of criminal justice, drawings of Central Park and Brooklyn Bridge, as well as records and photographs created by municipal departments such as police, health, parks, finance and education.
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Monday, May 20, 2024 - 6:00 PM | Special Event | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration requiredJoin us for a unique evening of readings and discussions of the works of the Austrian writer Robert Musil (1880-1942), author of the Modernist masterpiece The Man without Qualities, the novella The Confusions of Young Törless, and many short stories and essays, as well as plays, reviews, and aphorisms.
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Monday, May 20, 2024 - 6:00 PM | Special Event | Livestream | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredJoin us for a unique evening of readings and discussions of the works of the Austrian writer Robert Musil (1880-1942), author of the Modernist masterpiece The Man without Qualities, the novella The Confusions of Young Törless, and many short stories and essays, as well as plays, reviews, and aphorisms.
