Why Sunday Story Hours Are Coming to the Whitney
Libraries are now shut on Sundays, so the museum decided to step up.
By James Barron
Libraries are now shut on Sundays, so the museum decided to step up.
By James Barron
The New York Public Library is acquiring the collection of Jonathan Mann, an Abraham Lincoln expert who died last summer after a random attack on the Manhattan Bridge.
By Jennifer Schuessler
The mayor said that not only would there be no police hiring freeze, but that 600 recruits were on the way. Libraries still face budget reductions.
By Maria Cramer
Philanthropists worry that the city’s complex tangle of crises — migrants, homelessness, housing, the cost of living — cannot be easily fixed.
By Eliza Shapiro
Mary Augusta Ward’s “Lady Rose’s Daughter” was the blockbuster best seller of its day.
By Tina Jordan
A report by the House Ethics Committee detailed some of the ways the Long Island congressman spent donors’ money.
By James Barron
Archival photos of children’s reading rooms at the New York Public Library over the years.
By Erica Ackerberg
Actors reacted to a tentative deal to end their strike at a Creative Time fund-raiser, and the New York Public Library hosted its annual Library Lions gala.
By Alex Vadukul and Katie Van Syckle
The masterly Piccirilli brothers set up a shop in the Bronx and used hammers and chisels to create some of the most important public sculptures in the city.
By John Freeman Gill
Roberta Pereira, the director of the Playwrights Realm, will lead the library, which is home to more than eight million items relating to music, theater and dance.
By Sarah Bahr
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