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Tuesday, August 13, 2013
6:30 p.m. All the Buildings in New York: That I’ve Drawn So Far with James Gulliver Hancock, an artist and illustrator. Mid-Manhattan Library
 50+
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
6:30 p.m. The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village, with John Strausbaugh, a journalist, a cultural commentator, and one-time host of The New York Times’ Weekend Explorer series. Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults
7 p.m. 1970s New York City on Film: Saturday Night Fever
 Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults,
Book Lovers,
College & Graduate Students,
College/Graduate School Educators
Thursday, August 15, 2013
6:30 p.m. "The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code," with Sam Kean, New York Times bestselling author of "The Disappearing Spoon." Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults
6:30 p.m. English Conversation Hour! - Intermediate and Advanced Speakers
 Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults,
College & Graduate Students,
English Language Learners,
Immigrants
Sunday, August 18, 2013
2 p.m. "Tension," DVD, Black and White, 95 minutes, 1949, MGM, directed by John Berry, and starring Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, and Cyd Charisse. Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults
Monday, August 19, 2013
6:30 p.m. "The Amoeba in the Room: Why Animals and Plants Don’t Matter," with Nicholas P. Money, Ph.D., Professor of Botany at Miami University and author of "The Triumph of the Fungi," "Carpet Monsters and Killer Spores," "Mr. Bloomfield's Orchard" and "Mushroom." Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
6:30 p.m. Other People's Money: Inside the Housing Crisis and the Demise of the Greatest Real Estate Deal Ever Made, with Charles V. Bagli, a New York Times reporter who covers the intersection of politics and real estate. Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
1 p.m. Story Time for Grown-Ups - New York Shorts: Stories by New York Writers Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults,
50+,
Book Lovers,
English Language Learners,
Adults
7 p.m. 1970s New York City on Film: The Warriors
 Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults,
Book Lovers,
College & Graduate Students,
College/Graduate School Educators
Thursday, August 22, 2013
6:30 p.m. "Shrink:  A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in America," with Lawrence R. Samuel, the founder of Culture Planning, LLC, a consulting company offering cultural insight to Fortune 500 companies. Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults
6:30 p.m. English Conversation Hour! - Intermediate and Advanced Speakers
 Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults,
College & Graduate Students,
English Language Learners,
Immigrants
Sunday, August 25, 2013
2 p.m. "The Big Steal DVD, Black and White, 71 minutes, 1949, RKO Pictures, directed by Don Siegel and starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, and William Bendix. Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults
Monday, August 26, 2013
6:30 p.m. Canceled
"Russ & Daughters: Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built," with Mark Russ Federman, the former owner/proprietor of the beloved appetizing store on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. 		Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults
6:30 p.m. The Guide to New York City Urban Landscapes with Francis Morrone, an art and architecture critic. Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults
7 p.m. Story Time for Grown-Ups - New York Shorts: Stories by New York Writers Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults,
50+,
Book Lovers,
English Language Learners,
Adults
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
6:30 p.m. A Man and His Ship: America’s Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the SS United States," with Steven Ujifusa, an historian, who serves on the advisory council of the SS United States Conservancy. Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
6:30 p.m. The Art of Nathan Sawaya, a New York-based artist, who creates awe-inspiring works of art out of LEGO® bricks. Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults
Thursday, August 29, 2013
6:30 p.m. The World’s Health Care Crisis: From the Laboratory Bench to the Patient’s Bedside, with Ibis Sánchez-Serrano, the president and CEO of The Core Model Corporation, a corporate strategy and policy think tank. Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
6:30 p.m. "American Sunshine: Diseases of Darkness and the Quest for Natural Light," with Daniel Freund, assistant professor of social sciences at Bard High School Early College. Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults
Saturday, September 7, 2013
2:30 p.m. "Making an Impact: Telling stories with Google Maps and Google Earth," with Vanessa Schneider, who has been with Google, based in Mountain View, California, for more than two years, working on outreach for Google Maps. Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults
Sunday, September 8, 2013
2 p.m. "Where Danger Lives," DVD, Black and White, 82 minutes, 1950, directed by John Farrow and starring Gene Nelson, Sterling Hayden, and Phyllis Kirk. Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults
Monday, September 9, 2013
6:30 p.m. "The Socialite Who Killed a Nazi with Her Bare Hands and 143 Other Fascinating People Who Died This Past Year: The Best of the New York Times Obituaries, 2013," with William Mcdonald, the obituaries editor at The New York Times since 2006. Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
6:30 p.m. "The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code," with Margalit Fox, award-winning New York Times journalist. Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
6:30 p.m. "100 Events That Define the Aftermath of 9/11 in New York City: A New York City Autograph Collector’s Journey," with Michael Ragsdale, a video producer in New York City. Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults
Thursday, September 12, 2013
6:30 p.m. "Signs, Streets, and Storefronts: A History of Architecture and Graphics along America's Commercial Corridors," with Martin Treu, an architect, environmental graphic designer and the creative director of Treu Design. Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults
Monday, September 16, 2013
6:30 p.m. "A Concentration in Cuts: The Paper Cut Art of Thomas Witte," with Thomas Witte, local papercut artist. Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
6:30 p.m. "The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding," with Sarah Burns, writer and filmmaker. Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
6:30 p.m. "Global Weirdness: Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising Seas and the Weather of the Future," with Michael D. Lemonick, Senior Science Writer at Climate Central and Emily Elert, a writer and freelance science journalist. Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults
Thursday, September 19, 2013
6:30 p.m. "On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes," with Alexandra Horowitz, Ph.D., psychology, animal behavior, and canine cognition teacher at Barnard College, Columbia University. Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults
Sunday, September 22, 2013
2 p.m. "His Kind of Woman," DVD, Black and White, 120 minutes, 1951, directed by John Farrow and starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, and Vincent Price. Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults
Monday, September 23, 2013
6:30 p.m. "Bet the Farm: How Food Stopped Being Food," with Frederick Kaufman, a contributing editor at Harper's, a professor both at the City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism and of English and Journalism at the College of Staten Island. Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
6:30 p.m. "The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island," with Mac Griswold, a cultural landscape historian and the author of "Washington’s Gardens at Mount Vernon" and "The Golden Age of American Gardens." Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
6:30 p.m. Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time, with Ira Katznelson, Columbia University’s Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History. Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults
Thursday, September 26, 2013
6:30 p.m. Theatre at The Library presents: "A Celebration of T.S. Eliot'" with The Triangle Theatre Company, starring Amelia Anderson, Marie Bridget Dundon and Dudley Stone. Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults
Sunday, September 29, 2013
2 p.m. "The Racket,"  DVD, Black and White, 88 minutes, 1951, directed by John Cromwell and starring Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, and Robert Ryan. Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults
Monday, September 30, 2013
6:30 p.m. "Two Bites of the Apple: Bright Lights, Dark Deeds," with Elizabeth Zelvin, moderator, and panelists, Hilary Davidson, Robert Knightly, Gary Cahill, and Marshall Karp of Mystery Writers of America -- New York Chapter. Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
6:30 p.m. "New York Nights," with James and Karla Murray, professional photographers and authors of acclaimed books that have set the standard for urban documentation. Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults
6:30 p.m. Annette Cords, Weaving and Physics - What Inspires Artists Series Event
 Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
6:30 p.m. Blood Feud: The Hatfields & The McCoys: The Epic Story of Murder & Revenge, with Lisa Alther, the author of six bestselling novels. Mid-Manhattan Library
 Adults
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