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Why the Public Library Is Giving Away 1,000 Books – The New York Times
New York Today Why the Public Library Is Giving Away 1,000 Books The books come from its list of best titles of the year and will be available at three flagship library branches. Listen to this article · 9:24 min Learn more By James Barron, Nov. 20, 2025 Good morning. It’s Thursday. Today we’ll find…
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Winners of the 2025 National Book Awards Announced – National Book Foundation
National Book Foundation > News > Winners of the 2025 National Book Awards Announced Winners of the 2025 National Book Awards Announced November 2025 News Winners of the National Book Awards in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature announced at the 76th National Book Awards Ceremony The five Winners of the…
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Walk through the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs with American Museum of Natural History’s new ‘Impact’ exhibit – Space
Walk through the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs with American Museum of Natural History’s new ‘Impact’ exhibit News By Joanna Thompson published 19 hours ago “It sounds like science fiction or the stuff of Hollywood movies.” Comments (0) NEW YORK — The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City has opened…
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Tenement Museum teaches students history through ordinary people – NPR
This museum immerses students in U.S. history: ‘You can smell it, touch it, see it’ October 10, 20255:00 AM ET By Cory Turner Kat Lloyd stands in the dim light on the first-floor staircase of a dilapidated, New York City tenement building. Before her: a tour of wide-eyed teens on a field trip from their…
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NewsLib and Sept. 11, 2001 – Internet Archive – 9/11 – We Will Never Forget
https://web.archive.org/web/20040617130947/http://parklibrary.jomc.unc.edu/NewsLibtulloch.html Apr Jun Dec 17 2003 2004 2005 17 captures, 6 Dec 2003 – 16 Aug 2013 About this capture Paula Hane, a contributing editor to Information Today and editor of Newsbreaks, issued an editorial on September 17, 2001 entitled, “Information Professionals Respond Following Terrorist Attacks.” (1) This article inspired me to look at a…
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Libraries unveil the books New Yorkers couldn’t put down in 2024
CITYWIDE Libraries unveil the books New Yorkers couldn’t put down in 2024 By Erica Brosnan New York City, PUBLISHED 11:35 AM ET Dec. 27, 2024 As the year comes to a close, the New York Public Library has unveiled the top checked-out books of 2024. For the first time, the city’s three library systems —…
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Did New York City Forget How to Teach Children to Read? This fall, Eric Adams is pivoting to phonics.
By Caitlin Moscatello, Sept. 13, 2023 The debate about the best way to help children learn to read goes back more than 100 years, but an overwhelming body of data has shown the benefit of having kids sound out letters and words. One of the largest analyses of such studies is a 2000 report by…
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What I learned from taking a train across the US
Here’s how US train travel went from excellent to mediocre. By Dean Peterson, Jul 18, 2023, 11:15am EDT If you’ve taken the Amtrak recently, you might have no idea that the United States used to have the largest and wealthiest rail system in the world. How did the US go from having luxurious, widely used…
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Was You’ve Got Mail Trying to Warn Us About the Internet? (Or Telling Us to Give Up?) ‹ Literary Hub
Olivia Rutigliano on the Rise of Amazon.com, Corporate Homogenization, and the90s Rom Com in the Middle of It All By Olivia Rutigliano, May 20, 2022 It’s springtime again in New York City, which makes me think of You’ve Got Mail. “You don’t want to miss New York in the spring,” Joe Fox (Tom Hanks) advises Kathleen Kelly…
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“The game is afoot” at a NYC Sherlock Holmes exhibit – CBS News | Sunday Morning
Updated on: April 10, 2022 / 10:15 AM / CBS News “The game is afoot” at a NYC Sherlock Holmes exhibit It wasn’t easy for Glen Miranker to select what to share from his Sherlockian trove when he and his wife, Cathy, created the exhibit, “Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects,” now on display at the…
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Christmas in New York: 15 Festive Things To Do in NYC | Condé Nast Traveler
Our editors’ favorite holiday activities in the city they call home. By Alex Erdekian, December 7, 2020 We’re all looking for silver linings these days—and we’ve got one for you. This Christmas season in New York City is sort of peaceful. There are fewer tourists crowding Midtown sidewalks, no social pressure to attend every holiday…
