Sat, April 20 @ 11 AM | This event will take place in-person at the Pelham Parkway-Van Nest Library.
Relive your childhood with cartoons from our library collection! Come to the library for a relaxing time watching classic cartoons. We’ll watch animated movies or TV shows and enjoy a quiet Saturday morning. And we will also be providing readlikes from our collection. We hope to see you there!
For Children, Teens and Adults | Pelham Parkway-Van Nest Library | Adults,
Children,
School Age (5-12 years),
Families,
Parents/Caregivers,
Teens/Young Adults (13-18 years),
Young Adults/Pre GED (16-24 years) |
Sat, April 20 @ 1 PM | Come join us for our weekly Saturday Film Matinee featuring: Plane
On a commercial flight, a violent storm forces a pilot to make an emergency landing. Yet the situation soon escalates when the pilot realizes he landed in the heart of a war zone. He must then rely on a convict from his flight to rescue the others being held hostage by militants.
No Registration Required. | Todt Hill-Westerleigh Library | Adults |
Sat, April 20 @ 1 PM | 24 Frames per Second Helen Mirren plays the legendary Israeli PM in this tense depiction of the Yom Kippur War.
Short Q&A to follow the film. | Spuyten Duyvil Library | Adults,
50+ |
Sat, April 20 @ 1 PM | Arab American Heritage Month This month, we are celebrating Arab American Heritage Month by screening and discussing the film Amreeka (2009), Dir. Cherien Dabi. | Woodstock Library | Teens/Young Adults (13-18 years) |
Sat, April 20 @ 1 PM | Come for a great family movie at 1pm every Saturday, stay for the fidget activities (play-doh, coloring, and more). | Harlem Library | Children,
School Age (5-12 years) |
Sat, April 20 @ 2 PM | Poetry Programming This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL), Room 303. Registration is required.
The Hours (2002)
The story of how the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives. Directed by Stephen Daldry.
2002 | PG-13 | 114 minutes
About Reel to Read
The page meets the screen at Reel to Read, a curated series of independent and classic cinema. These free screenings… Registration required: Online | Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) | Adults,
Book Lovers |
Sat, April 20 @ 2 PM | This program will take place in person at Morrisania Library.
Peter Rabbit | Morrisania Library | Children,
School Age (5-12 years) |
Sat, April 20 @ 2 PM | April 6, 2PM
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022)
Mrs. Harris, an English domestic servant who falls in love with a couture Dior dress, decides she must buy one of her own. After she raises the funds to buy the dress, Mrs. Harris sets off on a journey to Paris that will change the course of her life. Paul Gallico's classic 1958 novel inspires the narrative.
Rated PG, 115 mins.
April 13, 2PM
The Color Purple (2023)
Musical adaptation of Alice Walker's novel about the life-long struggles of an A… | St. Agnes Library | Adults |
Sat, April 20 @ 2 PM | This event will take place at Baychester Library in the community room. Join us for a Kid's Movie the whole family can enjoy! This month we will be watching Kung Fu Panda 3. Movies will be rated no higher than PG. Light refreshments will be provided. No registration required.
Sign up for the NYPL Kids e-newsletter to get information on upcoming author talks and events happening at the Library and online. Get updates on online programming, at-home activities, and more in your inbox! | Baychester Library, Community Meeting Room | Children,
Pre-schoolers (3-5 years),
School Age (5-12 years),
Families |
Sat, April 20 @ 2 PM | World Literature Festival Join the Tremont Library for a viewing of Discount Workers, an eye-opening documentary, hosted as part of NYPL's World Literature Festival.
About the film: A textile factory fire in Karachi, Pakistan, kills over 260 workers, among them a widow’s only son. Saeeda’s transformation from domestic mother to influential activist brings her to the centre of a male dominated workers’ rights movement. A journey along the supply chain of the fashion industry reveals that change may in fact be coming fr… First come, first served | Tremont Library | Adults |
Sat, April 20 @ 2:30 PM | Please join us for an in-person screening of the film Naked Lunch.
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife, and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa.
Rating: R Runtime: 115 minutes
After the screening. there will be a discussion comparing the film to the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep, the source material for the film. | Bronx Library Center, Auditorium | Adults,
50+,
Book Lovers,
Persons with Disabilities,
Persons Without Homes |
Mon, April 22 @ 12 PM | Join us for an in-person film screening of Broadcast News (1987).
Take two rival television reporters: one handsome, one talented, both male. Add one producer, female. Mix well, and watch the sparks fly.
Director: James L. Brooks
Runtime: 133 Minutes | Bloomingdale Library | Adults |
Mon, April 22 @ 3 PM | Join us for a screening of The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023). Based on the Super Mario video games, the animated film follows Mario on his adventures with his friends. Mario joins forces with Princess Peach and Toad. The trio is in search of Mario's brother Luigi. Together, they hope to defeat the evil Bowser and save the Mushroom Kingdom from his destructive schemes.
Cast: Kevin Michael Richardson, Jack Black, Khary Payton, Chris Pratt, Charlie Day
Director(s): Michael Jelenic
Rating: PG
R… | Riverside Library | Children,
Pre-schoolers (3-5 years),
School Age (5-12 years) |
Mon, April 22 @ 3 PM | This event is online and in-person.
Join us every Monday for intriguing and compelling real life stories!
Join the Pelham Parkway-Van Nest Library for a free screening of "Delikado".
Program Description
Palawan is a tropical island paradise and one of Asia's tourist hotspots. But for a tiny network of environmental crusaders struggling to protect its spectacular forests and seas, it is a battlefield. Delikado follows three land defenders as they brave violence, death threats and murder whil… Registration required: Online | Pelham Parkway-Van Nest Library Online and Livestream | Adults,
50+,
College & Graduate Students,
Teens/Young Adults (13-18 years),
Young Adults/Pre GED (16-24 years) |
Mon, April 22 @ 3 PM | Come join us as we sit back, relax and watch a classic retro movie! This month... DUNE! The Original. David Lynch. Registration required: Online | Huguenot Park Library | Teens/Young Adults (13-18 years) |
Mon, April 22 @ 3 PM | This event will take place in person at the St. George Library Center.
Come and join us as we watch the film Ice Age (2002) on Monday, April 22, 2024 from 3:00pm - 5:00pm. The movie will be screened in the Teen Room.
A lost human infant is discovered during an Ice Age 20,000 years ago, and an unlikely trio of misfits team up to return him to his tribe. Manny, a depressed woolly mammoth; Sid, a fast-talking sloth; and the devilish saber-toothed tiger Diego face numerous obstacles during th… | St. George Library Center | Teens/Young Adults (13-18 years),
Young Adults/Pre GED (16-24 years) |
Mon, April 22 @ 3:30 PM | Seeking exciting series containing romance, comedy, horror, iseki, idol, slice of life, sports, fantasy, mecha, martial arts, and more? Then come join us at Woodstock for screenings of the latest and most popular trending series the world of anime has to offer. | Woodstock Library | Teens/Young Adults (13-18 years) |
Mon, April 22 @ 6 PM | Register
From the Horse's Mouth combines dance and theater to tell stories of dancers and dancing. This series of productions is a celebratory multi-disciplinary dance and theater production in which 20-25 performers ranging from dancers, choreographers, and dance professionals of all ages and dance traditions share memories and perform their own movement within an environment of projected images and video segments.
For its 25th year celebrating the "Heart and History of Dance," From the Horse… | New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter Auditorium | Adults |
Mon, April 22 @ 6 PM | Desperately Seeking Susan (1985; 104 mins.) Dir: Susan Seidelman. A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself.
Starring Madonna, Rosanna Arquette. | Jefferson Market Library, First Floor | Adults |
Tue, April 23 @ 1 PM | Spring is in the air and moods are light! We have some fun fare for your viewing pleasure:
First come first served.
Masks are strongly recommended!
Three Amigos
Tuesday, April 23rd at 1pm in the 2nd floor auditorium.
3 silent film stars are mistaken for real heroes and hired to defend a town against a very real group of bandits in this 1986 comedy/western.
104 minutes, Rated PG
Upcoming Movie:
Date Night
Tuesday, April 30th at 1pm in the 2nd floor auditorium.
A case of mistaken id… First come, first served | 58th Street Library, Community Meeting Room (not wheelchair accessible) | Adults |
Tue, April 23 @ 2 PM | 16mm Film Hollywood and the Great Depression, 1929-1939: There have been some beautiful, poignant, even hilarious movies portraying what life was like during the Great Depression, history’s devastating and crippling economic decade. The films in this series are some of those.
Grapes of Wrath (1940)
*Shown in 16mm format
starring Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, 2h 9m. The Joads, poor Oklahoma tenant farmers, are evicted from their home during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s and set out for California, along… | Hudson Park Library | Adults,
50+ |
Tue, April 23 @ 2 PM | Join us as we craft and watch a movie! | Washington Heights Library | School Age (5-12 years),
Children |
Tue, April 23 @ 3 PM | Synopsis
Dumb Money is the ultimate David vs. Goliath tale, based on the insane true story of everyday people who flipped the script on Wall Street and got rich by turning GameStop (yes, the mall videogame store) into the world’s hottest company. In the middle of everything is regular guy Keith Gill (Paul Dano), who starts it all by sinking his life savings into the stock and posting about it. When his social posts start blowing up, so does his life and the lives of everyone following him. As… | Kips Bay Library | Adults |
Tue, April 23 @ 4 PM | The series follows master spy Twilight, who must disguise himself as psychiatrist Loid Forger and build a mock family in order to investigate political leader Donovan Desmond. Unbeknownst to him, his wife, Yor, is actually an assassin known as the Thorn Princess, while his daughter, Anya, has telepathic abilities.
Join us on Tuesday, April 9th at 4:00pm for our Teen Anime Movie Night, where we'll be watching the anime "The Girl who Leapt Through Time." Free snacks and coloring sheets will be p… | Van Cortlandt Library | Teens/Young Adults (13-18 years) |
Tue, April 23 @ 4 PM | Are you a fan of anime?
Do you enjoy reading mangas like Dragon Ball, Fairy Tail, and more?
Come join Washington Heights Library’s Anime & Manga Club as we watch our favorite anime, as well as discuss new and upcoming titles.
For April, we’ll be highlighting the good, the bad, and the incredibly awkward in popular springtime anime romance. | Washington Heights Library | Teens/Young Adults (13-18 years) |
Tue, April 23 @ 4:45 PM | Join us in person for our film screenings of recent films!
Tuesday, April 23rd @ 4:45 PM: Wonka (2023). With dreams of opening a shop in a city renowned for its chocolate, a young and poor Willy Wonka discovers that the industry is run by a cartel of greedy chocolatiers. Directed by Paul King. Starring Timothée Chalamet, Calah Lane, Keegan-Michael Key, Hugh Grant and Olivia Colman. 1h 57m. | Ottendorfer Library | Adults,
50+ |
Tue, April 23 @ 5:30 PM | 16mm Film Seward Park is excited to host a new screening series dedicated to promoting conversations on housing and tenants rights issues. For our second session we will be screening the short films "Metropolitan Avenue," "Roaches' Lullaby," and "The Heart of Loisaida"
We hope you'll come join us for what will be a lively discussion of these educational and entertaining films!
While no registration is required, you may email lillianweber@nypl.org if you wish to receive a reminder a day before/day of the… | Seward Park Library | Adults |
Wed, April 24 @ 2 PM | Poetry Programming This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL), Room 303. Registration is required.
Cyrano (2021)
Too self-conscious to woo Roxanne himself, wordsmith Cyrano de Bergerac helps young Christian nab her heart through love letters. Directed by Joe Wright.
2021 | PG-13 | 124 minutes
About Reel to Read
The page meets the screen at Reel to Read, a curated series of independent and classic cinema. These free screenings, hand-picked by librarians, local au… Registration required: Online | Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) | Adults,
Book Lovers |
Wed, April 24 @ 3:30 PM | This event will take place in person at Dongan Hills Library.
Come watch a surprise family-friendly movie in our children's room! Ages 5-12 | Dongan Hills Library | Children,
School Age (5-12 years) |
Wed, April 24 @ 4 PM | This event will take place in person at Bloomingdale Library. Join us in the teen room for a showing of The Lorax (2012), just in time for Earth Month! | Bloomingdale Library | Young Adults/Pre GED (16-24 years) |
Wed, April 24 @ 4 PM | This month for Manga and Anime Club, we're taking over the Community Room and taking an hour out of our day to relax and watch some anime. You will decide what we watch! Old-school stuff? New episodes that just dropped? It's up to you! Registration required: Online | George Bruce Library | Teens/Young Adults (13-18 years) |
Thu, April 25 @ 11 AM | APRIL 25TH – TO SIR, WITH LOVE (1967)
Director – James Clavell; 105 Minutes; Rated NR; Columbia Pictures
Starring – Sidney Poitier, Judy Geeson, Christian Roberts, Suzy Kendall
An idealistic engineer-trainee and his experiences in teaching a group of rambunctious white high school students from the slums of London's East End. | Columbus Library | Adults |
Thu, April 25 @ 2 PM | Synopsis
A study of the neuroses of patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic, where the selection of new drapes for the hospital library sparks a war among a doctor's wife and a number of the institution's personnel.
Director: Vincente Minnelli, Production Year: 1955, Rating: TV-PG, Studio: Warner Bros., Runtime: 122 minutes
Cast
Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall, Charles Boyer, Gloria Grahame, Lillian Gish | Kips Bay Library | Adults |
Thu, April 25 @ 2 PM | Join us for classic films and blockbusters!
Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom (2023)
After failing to defeat Aquaman the first time, Black Manta wields the power of the mythic Black Trident to unleash an ancient and malevolent force. Hoping to end his reign of terror, Aquaman forges an unlikely alliance with his brother, Orm, the former king of Atlantis. Setting aside their differences, they join forces to protect their kingdom and save the world from irreversible destruction.
Director: James Wan… | Hudson Park Library | Adults,
50+ |
Thu, April 25 @ 2 PM | Register
The Library for the Performing Arts presents an afternoon of dance and discovery in partnership with The Royal Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem and the Black British Ballet Project. This special program highlights the little-known but extensive history of Black dancers in ballet in the UK and US and features performances by The Royal Ballet and Dance Theatre of Harlem. The live event by Dance Theatre of Harlem will take place in London with the Royal Ballet, and be livestreamed to the N… | New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter Auditorium | Adults |
Thu, April 25 @ 2 PM | Merrily We Live (1938)
Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
Starring: Billie Burke, Brian Aherne, Constance Bennett, Alan Mowbray, and Patsy Kelly.
Farce about a wealthy, irresponsible family who regularly take in tramps as servants, only to end up being robbed. Their latest tramp is not all he seems, however.
Running time: 90 minutes. | 96th Street Library | Adults |
Thu, April 25 @ 3:30 PM | Come watch your favorite anime and pick up some great manga at Soundview Library!
Attendance will be closed 15 minutes after start time. | Soundview Library | Teens/Young Adults (13-18 years) |
Thu, April 25 @ 4 PM | This event takes place in person. Every month we will watch a movie that is based on a form of literature. We will discuss comparisons between the film and its literary counterpart and enjoy the movie with free snacks. Bring your classmates and friends.
Vote for the movie that will be played using the QR or by filling out this form.
Patrons must be 13-18 years old to attend this screening. | Pelham Parkway-Van Nest Library | Teens/Young Adults (13-18 years),
Young Adults/Pre GED (16-24 years) |
Thu, April 25 @ 4 PM | Do you enjoy watching anime? Are you excited for what the Spring anime season has to offer? Or maybe you've never watched anime but you're curious to check it out? Then join us at the BLC Teen program room for the return of our Anime Club! We will be watching some of this season's most anticipated anime like the continuation of Demon Slayer and My Hero Academia as well as newcomers like A Condition Called Love, Wind Breaker and Kaiju no. 8! We'll discuss the differences between watching anime an… | Bronx Library Center, Teen Center | Teens/Young Adults (13-18 years) |
Thu, April 25 @ 4 PM | Come watch awesome anime with your friends, eat snacks, and get to know other teens who also love anime (or who are just starting out!)
YOU get to help vote on what we watch. From the below list, on this specific Thursday, we will watch... (majority vote taken at the start of the program wins)
Frieren
My Hero Academia
SPY x FAMILY
Naruto
Yuri on Ice
Mob Psycho 100
Fairy Tail
Slam Dunk
This program will take place in the St. Agnes Community Program Room (3rd Floor). No registration r… | St. Agnes Library, Community Program Room | Teens/Young Adults (13-18 years) |