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What's Happening This Week: Ice Cream Sunday, Street Foods of New York

Monday, August 13 Baked Explorations: Classic American Desserts Reinvented With Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito. The proprietors of Baked in Red Hook will be showcasing their recipes at the New York Public Library from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The event is free. Sunday, August 19 Third Annual Ice ... More >>

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HIGH SPIRITS

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New York Public Library President Anthony Marx Chats with Times Readers About NYPL Plan

The Voice recently wrote about the New York Public Library's P.R. push, as its $300 million renovation plan continues to draw criticism. So much, in fact, that NYPL President Anthony Marx said he would respond to the public's questions about proposed changes in the New York Times. Concerned citi ... More >>

New York Public Library Renovations: Good or Bad?

The New York Public Library has been working double time to boost positive P.R. about $300-million in planned renovations to its lion-fronted flagship on Fifth Avenue. Indeed, NYPL President Anthony Marx, in addition to penning many pro-change op-eds, has also agreed to field the public's question ... More >>

'Wichcraft at the New York Public Library

Starting Thursday, the New York Public Library will start offering food to its hungry researcher patrons, reports the New York Daily News. Two 'wichcraft kiosks are setting up in the Stephen A. Schwarzman building of the library as part of a one-year pilot program established in response to feedback ... More >>

The New York Public Library's Maps Project is a Time Machine for Your Neighborhood

While public library systems across the country flounder in the face of declining tax revenue and dwindling readership, the New York Public Library is somehow managing to survive. Rather than run away from digitization, NYPL has embraced it, and has recently produced a series of projects which are h ... More >>

100 Most Powerless New Yorkers

A 'power list' for the rest of us

Q&A: Ben Frost On Spending The Past Year Working With Brian Eno

Rolex/Kirsten Holst​Earlier this week, the Voice published a story about an improbably cool concert event pitting the alternately noisy and contemplative musician Ben Frost against the New York Public Library's Rose Reading Room—a grand, palatial space that will be the setting on Sunday ... More >>

Clemency Granted For Underage New York Public Library Fines

​Remember taking out books at the library as a kid? Remember the ensuing library fines when you couldn't get it together to return the books in time, and how you're pretty sure there are still never-returned library copies of Nancy Drew books from 15 years ago in your parents' house? In a nobl ... More >>

New York Public Library Will Pardon 140,000 Kids for Library Fines

​The New York Public Library is taking pity on some 140,000 city kids who have kept their library books out too long and are currently barred from borrowing new reading material. They will be able to chip away at their bills a buck at a time, $1 with every 15 minutes of reading. This is becaus ... More >>

New York Public Library Wins in Fight Against 'Bugget Cuts'

via​Last week we posted about one little girl's attempt to keep the New York Public Library functioning, a method that included vaguely yet awesomely threatening letters to Mayor Bloomberg ("Do Not Cut the Library's Buggets OR ELSE"!). That girl will be happy, because today word came from Ange ... More >>

SUMMER NECESSITY

Sunblock? Check! Lit mags? Check!

Happy 100th Birthday, New York Public Library!

​The New York Public Library is now 100 years old. It looks so good! The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on 42nd and Fifth Avenue -- you know, the main building, with the lions -- opened exactly 100 years ago today for borrowing. It's gone from having 1 million items to 65 million "and counting ... More >>

The Library Taps Coney Island Brewing Co. to Brew George Washington's Beer

Doth poor penmanship beget good beer?​The New York Public Library is getting foodier everyday. Not only is it digitizing some 40,000 New York restaurant menus of yore, it's also taking a stab at George Washington's recipe for making beer.

Salts of the Earth; China's Worst Food Scandals

​Behind the storefront of Japan Premium Beef is Bohemian, a hidden and secret restaurant that has managed to stay under the radar since it debuted two years ago. [NY Post] Remember those 10,000 menus the New York Public Library acquired to turn into a searchable database? Well, they're now be ... More >>

ROCKIN’ READING

Shudder to Think’s Nathan Larson reads his debut novel

Earth Hour Is Tonight

​Tonight, New York will join a host of international cities observing Earth Hour by shutting off the lights in a bunch of landmark buildings. This includes the Empire State Building, the U.N. headquarters, the New York Public Library, and a whole bunch of others, including some signs in Times Squa ... More >>

The New York Public Library Digitizes Menus, Delights Research-y Types

​Here's excellent news for academics, historians, and food obsessives alike: the New York Public Library is taking its collection of some 40,000 New York restaurant menus dating back to 1843 and digitizing the whole lot. The New York Post reports that beginning this spring, the library will en ... More >>

Week In Review: The Love and the Wizardry

We are all Jay-Z's children,. Photo by Jori Klein.​In the week we told you why you can't hate Kanye West and love My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy at the same time, we made similarly bold claims about Girl Talk--ten worst moments on that record, right here--and the Beatles, who along with a c ... More >>

See Jay-Z and Cornel West Talk About Rap Music at the New York Public Library on November 15

​Yesterday, we brought you a brief but compelling excerpt from Decoded, the autobiography-slash-annotated-lyric-sheet of a book Jay-Z will be releasing through Spiegel & Grau on November 16th. Now comes word that one day prior, on Monday, November 15th, Shawn Carter will be at the New York Pub ... More >>

Week in Review: Weezy Freed

Welcome to my life, Weezy.​So Lil Wayne is finally a free man. Perhaps a lonely free man, but a free man nonetheless. It's been a hell of a two weeks for the law around here, in all honesty. After last week's barrage of club closings, this week brought news of yet more: 171 Lombardy was raided ... More >>

In Memoriam: Jill Johnston (1929-2010)

Are Bed Bugs Biting at the New York Public Library?

​Aw, bed bugs! Always trying to advance themselves and learn (and feast on the blood of intellectual sorts who enjoy such pursuits as reading and research). According to a WPIX newscast posted on Bedbugger.com this a.m., the nasty little creatures have been found in the New York Public Library ... More >>

THE WRITE STUFF

Rub elbows with the lit-magerati

George Washington Owes $300,000 Library Fine

Scofflaw​Libraries are having a tough time these days. The New York Public Library has already cut back its hours dramatically, in response to mid-year city budget cuts. (And that was even before a potential loss of state aid to the city, which could result in a loss of 19,000 municipal worker ... More >>

Rikers Reading List: James Patterson, R. Pattinson in High Demand

Not on the Rikers Top 10 list.​New York Public Library book cart volunteers have gotten a look into Riker's that we mere Law and Order fan club members can only imagine. Turns out, it looks a bit like everywhere else reading-wise, except with more rules and nothing in hardcover (rarely worth t ... More >>

Empire State Building Goes Dark Tonight as New York Observes Earth Hour

​The Empire State Building will be shutting off its lights tonight for an hour at 8:30 in observation of Global Earth Hour 2010. Earth Hour is an initiative of the World Wildlife Fund, which asks "individuals, schools, organizations, businesses and governments" to turn off or dim their lights ... More >>

The Velvet Underground Reunion That Probably Won't Happen But Still (!)

​On December 8th, former Velvets Lou Reed, Maureen Tucker, and Doug Yule will find themselves sitting in the same room at the New York Public Library as part of an event promoting The Velvet Underground: New York Art, an omnibus VU retro out now on Rizzoli. David Fricke will be on hand to inte ... More >>

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I'm On The Cover of Paper!

​Well, a mock cover made up at the party Paper had for their 25th anniversary the other night (along with HP and their fabulous ink cartridges). First of all, let me say what an amazing job the mag's Kim Hastreiter, David Hershkovits, Mickey Boardman, and Drew Elliott did in pulling together ... More >>

Mickey D's Making Customers Happy & The Latest Food Safety Scare? Cantaloupes!

Grilling enthusiasts need not skimp on the steak this summer. Bargain cuts include hanger, flatiron, flank, flap, tri-tip, skirt, chuck eye, chuck shoulder and top sirloin. So, what's the key to the perfect steak? Patience: let it sit before you put it on the grill and after. [Washington Post] A po ... More >>

PAGE TURNER

Where all the sad young literary men will be

Quick Hits

OK, not new we're sure, but new to us: the New York Public Library Digital Gallery online. And here's where instinct and the search feature led us: "Woman holding Hitler the Cat at Jitterbug Contest." If it comes too late in the day for you to waste time with it, there's always tomorrow. Speaking ... More >>

Author Profile Leads to NY Library Fun Facts

One thing in the Observer's story on author Wells Tower caught Crystal Koo's attention: "Seriously, the New York Public Library has a secret room reserved for people with book contracts?" Yes, though it's not quite a secret; NYPL lists the Frederick Lewis Allen Room as "reserved for writers with boo ... More >>

We Love You Guys (Belch, Vomit)

Image via the New York Public Library Later tonight, when we are maudlin-drunk, we will want to thank our readers for their patronage and feedback, so let us do that now while we can still make ourselves understood. Also, let us share with you our resolutions specific to this relationship: We will ... More >>

Live: Zadie Smith at the NYPL

Local Craftspeople Make Art About Books for NY Public Library

'How Soon Is Now?' at the Bronx Museum of the Arts

Clip Job: How to Steal Other People's Blind Dates

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