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Our COVID-19 response

While the building is closed, here is Your Virtual NYSL.
View our brand-new message from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff!

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Learn more about our 2019-2020 NYC Book Award winners.

Drop in to Digital Teatime every Friday, 3:00-3:30 PM.

NEW BOOKS LIST
Book Recommendations

Reading Country Music - by Gayden Wren

Recent Books on New York City Selected by our New York City Book Awards Jury

What We Are Reading Now
Library Blog

Our Indoor World: Baking Bread at Home

May 29, 2020

Stay busy and fed with an oven and a mixing bowl.

Winning Words, At Home: Celebrating the 2020 Young Writers Awards

May 26, 2020

Celebrating the 18th Annual Young Writers Awards.

Remembering to Turn on the Light

May 19, 2020

With nature news and comfort reading, the world can look beautiful from indoors.

The Indestructibles

May 14, 2020

Ladies and Gentlemen, from the depths of our Closed Stacks, I bring you Hoyt's Indestructible Book-binding.
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