FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 1, 2019 CONTACT: pressoffice@cityhall.nyc.gov, (212) 788-2958 IN HISTORIC EXPANSION OF CENSUS 2020 OUTREACH EFFORTS MAYOR DE BLASIO INVESTS $1.4 MILLION IN CITY’S LIBRARY SYSTEMS NYC Census 2020 Will Fund Efforts Across Entire System, with…
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Armando Lucas Correa grew up in Cuba and remembers visiting the beautiful building that housed the National Library when he was a teenager as well as different libraries all over his city. A writer whose novels tell stories of the Holocaust, he visited Forest Hills Library this…
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Above: Kids make paper by hand in Week 3 of our Book Creation Workshop. For the past two years, Queens Public Library Foundation’s Innovation Fund has supported creative initiatives at the libraries with awards of up to $10,000 each. In the Fund’s second year, winning projects…
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We asked Evelyn Kanter, author of the new NYC guidebook 100 Things To Do in New York City Before You Die, who visited the Forest Hills and Briarwood libraries this spring, for suggestions for the best summer locations in the city. She shared this collection of small NYC museums…
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This spring, more than 170 adult students celebrated their accomplishments at the Adult Learner Program graduation ceremony. In a rousing speech, the ceremony’s keynote speaker, Columbia University’s Dr. Christopher Emdin, encouraged the graduates to hold onto all the history of…
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