Saturday, May 18th: How to Save at Least 50% Every Time You Grocery Shop
How to Save at Least 50% Every Time You Grocery Shop Port Richmond Library (75 Bennett St., Staten Island) 2pm Free STOP throwing your money away at the grocery store! What if you could save at least 50% on your monthly grocery budget and build a stockpile of food at the same time? This workshop [...]
Friday, May 17th: Interviewing Your Way to a Job Offer
Interviewing Your Way to a Job Offer Science Industry and Business Library (188 Madison Ave., Rm 018, Manhattan) Noon-1:30pm Free Theodore Henderson discusses techniques to turn your interviews into job offers. Topics covered include: Positioning Yourself for Career Change; The Cornerstone of Your Search Handling References Basic Interviewing Preparing for the Interview Turn Your Interview [...]
Friday, May 3rd: Jewish Geography in America: Who Went Where When and Why
Jewish Geography in America: Who Went Where When and Why Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (Fifth Ave. at 42nd St., Manhattan) 10am-3:30pm Free, register: email annmariestarita@nypl.org 10:00 – 11:15 AM Keynote address by Dr. Jonathan Sarna South Court Auditorium “Jewish Settlement Patterns in the United States: Why Jews Ended Up Where They Did” Dr Jonathan Sarna [...]
Thursday, May 2nd: How To Start Your Own Food Truck
How To Start Your Own Food Truck Science Industry and Business Library (188 Madison Ave., Rm 018, Manhattan) 6-7:30pm Free Do you have a great recipe that everyone raves about? Are you interested in giving up your day job to take on the intrepid life of a food-trucker? Before you take out a second mortgage [...]
Saturday, April 27th: Sounds of the Brill Building
Sounds of the Brill Building New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter Auditorium (40 Lincoln Center Plaza, Manhattan) 7pm Free The Joe McGinty Seven with members of The Losers Lounge perform selections from the Music Division’s historic Brill Building lead sheet collection, with commentary by division [...]
Friday, April 26th: Financial Empowerment Day 2013
Financial Empowerment Day 2013 cience Industry and Business Library (188 Madison Ave., Manhattan) 11am-5pm Free Classes Medicare, Investment Choices, Safeguarding Your Credit, Ready to Invest, Wills and Advance Directive, Savings Fitness & more… Counseling Certified Financial Planners offer 30 minute private sessions. Database Demonstrations Staff demonstrations of resources to assist you with your personal finances. [...]
Friday, April 26th: Organizing Small Spaces
Organizing Small Spaces Morningside Heights NYPL Branch (2900 Broadway, Manhattan) 5:30pm Free Come join Jennifer Ryan Professional Organizer and Motivator finally take control of that small space. Learn techniques to stay organized and in control. Product recommendation and creative solutions will be our focus to create your new order. Click here for more free New [...]
Tuesday, April 23rd: Public Speaking: From Freak-Out to Fun
Public Speaking: From Freak-Out to Fun Science Industry and Business Library (188 Madison Ave., Rm 018, Manhattan) 6-7:30pm Free Is “Just come up and say a few words” is the scariest thing anyone could say to you? Learn to use your natural strengths to serve your audiences – rather than worrying about their judgments. Nancy [...]
Wednesday, April 17th: ‘Tweeting and Eating: How Social Media has Changed the Way We Eat’ + Awesome Panelists
Tweeting and Eating: How Social Media has Changed the Way We Eat Mid-Manhattan Library (40th St. & 5th Ave., Manhattan) 6:30-8:30pm Free Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Yelp…never before has it been easier to hunt down delicious food and share your own discoveries. This panel discussion hosted by co-authors of New York à la Cart: Recipes and [...]
Through Saturday, April 20th: Shakespeare Week
Shakespeare Week Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (42nd St & 5th Ave., Manhattan) 1:15pm Free New York Public Library celebrates Shakespeare with a week of free events. Click here for more information & a complete schedule. Click here for more free New York City events & things to do.
Monday, April 15th: Free Screening of ‘Bhowani Junction’
Bhowani Junction Jefferson Market Library (425 6th Ave., Manhattan) 6-8pm Free (1956; 110 mins.) This film is a big one for Ava. Possibly the best performance of her career, once director George Cukor’s camera focuses on Ava it stays riveted and the attention never wanders! Set in India, Ava plays an Anglo-Indian tormented by her [...]
Tuesday, April 9th: Diller Scofidio + Renfro on the High Line & Lincoln Center
Diller Scofidio + Renfro New York Public Library Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, South Court Auditorium (42nd St & 5th Ave., Manhattan) 5:30pm doors, 6-8pm Free Join partners Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio and Charles Renfro of Diller Scofidio + Renfro along with Barry Bergdoll MoMa’s Chief Curator of architecture and design, to discuss the redesign of [...]
Monday, April 8th: Free Screening of ‘Show Boat’
Show Boat Jefferson Market Library (425 6th Ave., Manhattan) 6-8pm Free (1951; 108 mins.) Ava is a fully fledged star in this Technicolor musical! She plays a singer on a show boat who holds a tragic secret (at least for the time). Ava’s singing was dubbed in this film, but you can hear her voice [...]
Monday, April 8th: ‘Be Good: How to Navigate the Ethics of Everything’
Be Good: How to Navigate the Ethics of Everything Mid-Manhattan Library (40th St. & 5th Ave., Manhattan) 6:30-8:30pm Free This amusing and engaging illustrated lecture, that delivers answers to life’s most challenging dilemmas—timeless and contemporary alike, challenges the audience to think about how they would (or should) respond when faced with everyday moral challenges, from [...]
Thursday, April 4th: How Bogota Latin Bistro Got Launched! with Owner Farid Ali Lancheros
How Bogota Latin Bistro Got Launched! Science Industry and Business Library (188 Madison Ave., Rm 018, Manhattan) 6-7:30pm Free Come hear how a successful restaurant in Park Slope got its start from owner Farid Ali Lancheros. Bogota Latin Bistro & Mojito Bar in Park Slope continues to celebrate success in a field where a majority [...]
Wednesday, March 27th: Debbie Harry, Chris Stein & Will Hermes
PUNKING OUT: Platinum Punk New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter Auditorium (40 Lincoln Center Plaza, Manhattan) 6pm Free Music icons Debbie Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie join Will Hermes, senior critic of Rolling Stone and author of Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five [...]
Wednesday, March 27th: ‘Hidden Cities: My Journey Into The Secret World Of Urban Exploration’ with Moses Gates
Hidden Cities: My Journey Into The Secret World Of Urban Exploration Mid-Manhattan Library (40th St. & 5th Ave., Manhattan) 6:30-8:30pm Free This illustrated talk is a fascinating glimpse into the world of urban exploration. The author describes his trespasses through underground canals, sewers, subways, crypts, in some of the most illustrious cities in the world, [...]
Tuesday, March 26th: The Blank Generation Screenings
The Blank Generation Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (515 Malcolm X Blvd., Manhattan) 6pm Free This evening features a collection of short films that focus on the experiences of young Punks in New York. Works to be screened include: Punking Out, 1979. Directed by Maggi Carson, Juliusz Kossakowski, Frederic A. Shore. Shot in [...]
Saturday, March 23rd: Fresh, Bold & So Def Women in Hip-Hop
Fresh, Bold & So Def Women in Hip-Hop Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (515 Malcolm X Blvd., Manhattan) 4-6pm Free, register here In celebration of Women’s History Month this program will highlight the contributions and achievements of women in hip-hop through media, performances, and a panel discussion. Performances by: Genesis Be, FM Supreme, [...]
Wednesday, March 20th: Dominique Nahas, Margaret Evangeline, Jonathan Goodman & Lilly Wei
Dominique Nahas, Margaret Evangeline, Jonathan Goodman & Lilly Wei Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Margaret Liebman Berger Forum (42nd St. & 5th Ave., Manhattan) 5:30pm doors, 6pm start Free Artist Margaret Evangeline, poet and art writer Jonathan Goodman, art critic Dominique Nahas and curator Lilly Wei discuss art’s potential to mirror social issues without subverting the [...]
Saturdays Through March 30th: Neuroscience: An Introduction to Your Brain
Neuroscience: An Introduction to Your Brain Jefferson Market Library (425 6th Ave., Manhattan) 2-4pm Free Can’t tell your amygdala from your orbitofrontal cortex? Curious about the neural underpinnings of everyday experiences like habits, cravings, decision making and memory? This three-session course offers a comprehensive overview of functional neuroanatomy – focusing on the major regions and [...]
Thursday, March 14th: ‘Staccato Incandescence: The Story of Mambo’
Staccato Incandescence: The Story of Mambo New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter Auditorium (40 Lincoln Center Plaza, Manhattan) 6pm Free Robert Farris Thompson, Master T, the Colonel John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art at Yale University will focus his lecture on mambo which [...]
Wednesday, February 27th: ‘Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World’
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World 86th & Lexington Ave. Barnes & Noble (150 E. 86th St., Manhattan) 7pm Free In this fascinating story of two pioneering women journalists vying to outdo each other and the feats of Phineas Fogg, Matthew Goodman marries social history with travelogue. Click here [...]
Wednesday, February 27th: Dance Performance Screenings with David Vaughan
The Dance Historian Is In New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, 3rd Fl. Screening Rm (40 Lincoln Center Plaza, Manhattan) 1pm & 4pm Free, register by 11am David Vaughan, archivist of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and author of Merce Cunningham/65 Years, will introduce and show videos [...]
