Events

*In Person: U.S. Citizenship workshop at the Bronx Library Center Join the U.S. Citizenship Test Workshop and let us give you a step-by-step guide on how to pass the U.S. Citizenship Test. We will be using USCIS resources: Citizenship Learners Citizenship Study-Test New York Public Library Citizenship Resources and Programs Beginner to Advance English Speakers

This program is in person. We will be showing the movie "Boogie" Alfred “Boogie” Chin is a talented high school basketball player from Queens, New York, who dreams of playing in the NBA. His parents, however, have a different plan for him: they want him to focus on getting a scholarship to an elite college instead. While already burdened with high expectations, he finds himself struggling more as he tries to navigate high school, a new girlfriend, and fierce on-court rivals. Directors Eddie…

This event will take place in person at the branch! We'll be discussing the novel Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang Check it out and start reading today! Register at the link above. . “A potent testament to the love, curiosity, grit, and hope of a courageous and resourceful immigrant child. Engaging readers through all five senses and the heart, Wang's debut memoir is a critical addition to the literature on immigration as well as the timeless category of childhood memoir.”—Kirkus Re…

Join us for classic films and blockbusters! Scarface (1983) In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed. Director: Brian De Palma | Writers: Oliver Stone, Howard Hawks, Ben Hecht | Stars: Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer | 2h 50m

In-person. Come read with us! Offered at two times: Tuesday, May 14th at 5:30 --OR--Thursday, May 16th at 2:00pm. Each month, we will read a novel from the New York Public Library’s list of 125 Books We Love. This month, we will discuss The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. The novel is an Indian American saga, covering the Ganguli family across three decades. The novel beautifully captures the tensions and confusions of growing up as a first-generation American. A poignant treatment of the immi…

This program is in person. We will be showing the movie "Boogie" Alfred “Boogie” Chin is a talented high school basketball player from Queens, New York, who dreams of playing in the NBA. His parents, however, have a different plan for him: they want him to focus on getting a scholarship to an elite college instead. While already burdened with high expectations, he finds himself struggling more as he tries to navigate high school, a new girlfriend, and fierce on-court rivals. Directors Eddie…

In-person. Come read with us! Offered at two times: Tuesday, May 14th at 5:30 --OR--Thursday, May 16th at 2:00pm. Each month, we will read a novel from the New York Public Library’s list of 125 Books We Love. This month, we will discuss The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. The novel is an Indian American saga, covering the Ganguli family across three decades. The novel beautifully captures the tensions and confusions of growing up as a first-generation American. A poignant treatment of the immi…

An adaptation of Amy Tan's bestseller about four immigrant Chinese women and their American-born daughters. The story begins in San Francisco, where three of the women have gathered to bid farewell to their deceased friend's daughter, who's departing for China to meet her long-lost half sisters.

*In Person: U.S. Citizenship workshop at the Bronx Library Center Join the U.S. Citizenship Test Workshop and let us give you a step-by-step guide on how to pass the U.S. Citizenship Test. We will be using USCIS resources: Citizenship Learners Citizenship Study-Test New York Public Library Citizenship Resources and Programs Beginner to Advance English Speakers

The Bowery is one of NYC’s oldest and most architecturally diverse streets. Stretching 1.25 miles from Chatham Square to Cooper Square, it has been a Native American footpath, a Dutch farm road and the site of NYC’s first free Black settlement as well as an early social hub for the working class, gangs, gays, and immigrant Irish, Italians, Chinese, Jews and Germans. Stephen Crane once called it “the most interesting place in New York.” In this talk, David Mulkins, the President of the Bowery…

*In Person: U.S. Citizenship workshop at the Bronx Library Center Join the U.S. Citizenship Test Workshop and let us give you a step-by-step guide on how to pass the U.S. Citizenship Test. We will be using USCIS resources: Citizenship Learners Citizenship Study-Test New York Public Library Citizenship Resources and Programs Beginner to Advance English Speakers

This program will be presented in-person at the Tompkins Square Library. The Tompkins Square Library continues its year-long celebration of the culture and history of the East Village and Lower East Side with this very special program featuring Susan McKeown. Susan is a Grammy Award-winning and BBC Folk Music Award nominated singer, songwriter, producer, director, actor, and community activist who began her songwriting career on the Lower East Side in the 1990s, as an immigrant from Ireland…

This program will be in person at the Allerton Library. For this month's book club, we will be discussing the book Front Desk by Kelly Yang, the story of fifth-grader Mia Tang, in which readers experience the courage, hard work, and dreams of a young Chinese immigrant. We'll spend some time discussing why the book was challenged, and NYPL's Books for All campaign that promotes the freedom to read and to "elevate and amplify the stories, voices, and titles that censorship attempts to repress."…

Join us this May for our FIlm Series for Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month! Evelyn Wang, a flustered immigrant mother, is contacted from a parallel universe and told that only she can save the world. The unlikely hero must learn to channel her newfound powers and fight through the splintering timelines of the multiverse to save her home, her family, and herself in this big-hearted and irreverent adventure.